One who is in search of knowledge should give up the search of pleasure and the one who is in search of pleasure should give up the search of knowledge.
CHANAKYAIt is better to live under a tree in a jungle inhabited by tigers and elephants, to maintain oneself in such a place with ripe fruits and spring water, to lie down on grass and to wear the ragged barks of trees than to live amongst one’s relations when reduced to poverty.
More Chanakya Quotes
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We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.
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The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
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A low-minded person should not be given good advice.
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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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For good days one should save money, women should be protected even if it takes the money saved. But for self preservation the money and the women should be sacrificed!!
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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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Do not put your trust in rivers, men who carry weapons, beasts with claws or horns, women, and members of a royal family.
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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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Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
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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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One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.
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The low minded are fond of deception the nature of low-minded people never changes.
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How well you treat the wicked people, they don’t give up their wickedness. They derive pleasure in hurting others. A serpent made to drink milk, it ejects poison only.
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A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
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She is a true wife who is clean (suci), expert, chaste, pleasing to the husband, and truthful.
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