Wealth, a friend, a wife, and a kingdom may be regained; but this body when lost may never be acquired again.
CHANAKYAWhat vice could be worse than covetousness? What is more sinful than slander? For one who is truthful, what need is there for austerity? For one who has a clean heart, what is the need for pilgrimage?
More Chanakya Quotes
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A learned man is honored by the people. A learned man commands respect everywhere for his learning. Indeed, learning is honored everywhere.
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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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What good can the scriptures do to a man who has no sense of his own? Of what use is as mirror to a blind man?
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Knowledge is lost without putting it into practice; a man is lost due to ignorance; an army is lost without a commander; and a woman is lost without a husband.
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Brass is polished by ashes; copper is cleaned by tamarind; a woman, by her menses; and a river by its flow.
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He who has wealth has friends and relations; he alone survives and is respected as a man.
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The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.
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If a king is energetic, his subjects will be equally energetic.
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Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
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Don’t judge the future of a person based on his present conditions, because time has the power to change black coal to shiny diamond.
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A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
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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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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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Religion is preserved by wealth; knowledge by diligent practice; a king by conciliatory words; and a home by a dutiful housewife.
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A wicked wife, a false friend, a saucy servant and living in a house with a serpent in it are nothing but death.
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