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Chanakya Quotes
Best Quotes by Chanakya (Top 10)
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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.
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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.
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A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
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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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A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
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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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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.
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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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The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.
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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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More Chanakya Quotes
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God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.
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Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
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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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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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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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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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The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.
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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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What vice could be worse than covetousness? What is more sinful than slander? For one who is truthful, what need is there for austerity? For one who has a clean heart, what is the need for pilgrimage?.
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Do not put your trust in a bad companion nor even trust an ordinary friend, for if he should get angry with you, he may bring all your secrets to light.
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A still-born son os 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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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 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.
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He who is prepared for the future and he who deals cleverly with any situation that may arise are both happy; but the fatalistic man who wholly depends on luck is ruined.
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Those parents who do not educate their sons are their enemies; for as is a crane among swans, so are ignorant so are ignorant sons in a public assembly.
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