Chanakya Quotes [1]
Submitted by uday on October 15, 2012 - 11:53am- Learn from the mistakes of others...you can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
- A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.
- Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.
- A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
- A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.
- Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
- A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
- The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.
- He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.
- Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
- Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
- 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.
- As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.
- 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.
- God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.
- He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.
- The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.
- Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.
- The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
- There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
- 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.
- The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.
- Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.
- Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.
- O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.
- Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
- The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.
- As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.
- 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?
- The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.
- 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.
- Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.
- 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.
- 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.
- It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life.
- The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.
- If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?
- There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.
- The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
- A debt should be paid off till the last penny, and an enemy should be destroyed till last trace.
- A human being should strive for four things in life — dharma (duty), artha (money), kama (pleasure) and moksha (salvation). A person who hasn't striven for even one of these things has wasted life.
- A rich man has many friends.
- Women have hunger two-fold, shyness four-fold, daring six-fold, and lust eight-fold as compared to men.
- 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.
- As centesimal droppings will fill a pot so also are knowledge, virtue and wealth gradually obtained.
- Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher of poison with milk on top.
- He who befriends a man whose conduct is vicious, whose vision impure, and who is notoriously crooked, is rapidly ruined.
- Don't hesitate to learn something even from the most lowly of creatures.
- In a state where the ruler lives like a common man, the citizens live like kings. And in the state where the ruler lives like a king, the citizens live like beggars.
- Jealousy is another name for failure.
- Never go on a long journey alone.
- Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
- Variant version: Friendship should be among equals.
- 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.
- The four greatest enemies of a man are — the father who has taken a loan, the characterless mother, the beautiful but promiscuous wife and the stupid child.
- Whores don't live in company of poor men, birds don't build nests on a tree that doesn't bear fruits and citizens never support a weak administration.
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Wise men should never go into a country where there are no means of earning one's livelihood, where the people have no dread of anybody, have no sense of shame, no intelligence, or a charitable disposition.
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