A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
CHANAKYAThe 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.
More Chanakya Quotes
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As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.
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A permanent relationship is dependent on particular purpose or wealth.
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As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?
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Considersing the forebearance of a person, Do not harass him.
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Although an ass is tired, he continues to carry his burden; he is unmindful of cold and heat; and he is always contented; these three things should be learned from the ass.
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Whores don’t live in company of poor men, citizens never support a weak company and birds don’t build nests on a tree that doesn’t bear fruits.
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Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
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It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.
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Water is the medicine for indigestion; it is invigorating when the food that is eaten is well digested; it is like nectar when drunk in the middle of a dinner; and it is like poison when taken at the end of a meal.
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Low class men desire wealth;middle class men both wealth and respect; but the noble, honour only; hence honour is the noble man’s true wealth.
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Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.
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The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.
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Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.
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The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.
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There is no disease so destructive as lust.
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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.
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He who wears unclean garments, has dirty teeth, is a glutton, speaks unkindly and sleeps after sunrise – although he may be the greatest personality – will lose the favour of Lakshmi.
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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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Wealth, a friend, a wife, and a kingdom may be regained; but this body when lost may never be acquired again.
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He who has wealth has friends.
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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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What 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?
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Till the enemy’s weakness is known , he should be kept on friendly terms.
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The king shall lose no time when the opportunity waited for arrives.
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A person becomes great not be sitting on some high seat, but through higher qualities. Can a crow become an eagle by simply sitting on the top of a palatial building?
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There are three gems upon this earth; food, water, and pleasing words – fools consider pieces of rocks as gems.
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