Brass is polished by ashes; copper is cleaned by tamarind; a woman, by her menses; and a river by its flow.
CHANAKYAA 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.
More Chanakya Quotes
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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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Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
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A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
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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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The 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.
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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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The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.
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The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
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A thing may be dreaded as long as it has not overtaken you.
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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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People’s Fury is above all the furies.
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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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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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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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Time perfects men as well as destroys them.
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