The ruler should employ person in tasks according to their abilities because Knowers ( or the means ) and efficient employees make impossible tasks also possible.
CHANAKYAVirtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.
More Chanakya Quotes
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Our bodies are perishable, wealth is not at all permanent and death is always nearby. Therefore we must immediately engage in acts of merit.
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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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As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.
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A still-born son is superior to a foolish son endowed with a long life. The first causes grief for but a moment while the latter like a blazing fire consumes his parents in grief for life.
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A man attains greatness by his merits, not simply by occupying an exalted seat. Can we call a crow an eagle simply because he sits on the top of a tall building?
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All types of riches should be amassed by all means.
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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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An egoist can be won over by being respected, a crazy person can be won over by allowing him to behave in an insane manner and a wise person can be won over by truth.
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Prosperity lasts long for one who acts after proper consideration.
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Accumulated wealth is saved by spending just as incoming fresh water is saved by letting out stagnant water.
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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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A friend, even if he be the enemy’s son , should be protected.
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A ruler wishing to win should not trust a captured enemy even if he may be extending had to be friend. Because deep rooted enmity, however, concealed, will surely come to light.
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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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Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.
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