Do not keep company with a fool for as we can see he is a two-legged beast. Like an unseen thorn he pierces the heart with his sharp words.
CHANAKYA
CHANAKYA
Chanakya on company
Chanakya126 quotes“Do not keep company with a fool for as we can see he is a two-legged beast. Like an unseen thorn he pierces the heart with his sharp words.”
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The learned are envied by the foolish; rich men by the poor; chaste women by adulteresses; and beautiful ladies by ugly ones.
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ChanakyaChanakya Wealth, a friend, a wife, and a kingdom may be regained; but this body when lost may never be acquired again.
ChanakyaChanakya He who look at a woman who is not his wife as a mother; wealth that is not his as dust and all the men as himself… is a happy man. He, who sees all these things under a different light, is a blind.
ChanakyaChanakya The beauty of a cuckoo is in its notes, that of a woman in her unalloyed devotion to her husband, that of an ugly person in his scholarship, and that of an ascetic in his forgiveness.
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ChanakyaChanakya What good is a cow that neither gives milk nor conceives? Similarly, what is the value of the birth of a son if he becomes neither learned nor a pure devotee of the Lord?
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ChanakyaChanakya The forest fire burns even tree like sandalwood.
ChanakyaChanakya Lakshmi, the Goddess of wealth, comes of Her own accord where fools are not respected, grain is well stored up, and the husband and wife do not quarrel.
ChanakyaChanakya Enemies strike at weak points.
ChanakyaChanakya He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.
ChanakyaChanakya Learning is a friend on the journey; a wife in the house; medicine in sickness; and religious merit is the only friend after death.
ChanakyaChanakya The ruler should employ person in tasks according to their abilities because Knowers ( or the means ) and efficient employees make impossible tasks also possible.
ChanakyaChanakya Till the enemy’s weakness is known , he should be kept on friendly terms.
ChanakyaChanakya Let not a single day pass without your learning a verse, half a verse, or a fourth of it, or even one letter of it; nor without attending to charity, study and other pious activity.
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