Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
CHANAKYAHe 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.
More Chanakya Quotes
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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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Till the enemy’s weakness is known , he should be kept on friendly terms.
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Skills are called hidden treasure as they save like a mother in a foreign country.
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There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.
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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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Time perfects men as well as destroys them.
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The foolish wish to speak out what was spoken in secret by the master.
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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 wise man should marry a virgin of a respectable family even if she is deformed. He should not marry one of a low-class family, through beauty. Marriage in a family of equal status is preferable.
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The ruler should employ person in tasks according to their abilities because Knowers ( or the means ) and efficient employees make impossible tasks also possible.
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Sinfully acquired wealth may remain for ten years; in the eleventh year it disappears with even the original stock.
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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 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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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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A thing may be dreaded as long as it has not overtaken you.
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