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.
CHANAKYAA 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.
More Chanakya Quotes
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Beauty is spoiled by an immoral nature; noble birth by bad conduct; learning, without being perfected; and wealth by not being properly utilised.
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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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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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People’s Fury is above all the furies.
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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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Women have hunger two-fold, shyness four-fold, daring six-fold, and lust eight-fold as compared to men.
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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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The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
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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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He who gives up shyness in monetary dealings, in acquiring knowledge, in eating and in business, becomes happy.
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This world is a bitter tree, it has only two sweet nectar like fruits – one is soft voice and the other is company of gentlemen.
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The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.
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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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The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.
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