Chanakya quotes - page 3

Generosity, pleasing address, courage and propriety of conduct are not acquired, but are inbred qualities. (Chanakya)
Do not put your trust in rivers, men who carry weapons, beasts with claws or horns, women, and members of a royal family. View quote
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What good can the scriptures do to a man who has no sense of his own Of what use is as mirror to a blind man. View quote
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Women have hunger two-fold, shyness four-fold, daring six-fold, and lust eight-fold as compared to men. View quote
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Lakshmi, the Goddess of wealth, comes of Her own accord where fools are not respected, grain is well stored up, and the husband and wife do not quarrel. View quote
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He who gives up shyness in monetary dealings, in acquiring knowledge, in eating and in business, becomes happy. View quote
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My dear child, if you desire to be free from the cycle of birth and death, then abandon the objects of sense gratification as poison. Drink instead the nectar of forbearance, upright conduct, mercy, cleanliness and truth. View quote
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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. View quote
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Learning is a friend on the journey; a wife in the house; medicine in sickness; and religious merit is the only friend after death. View quote
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He who nurtures benevolence for all creatures within his heart overcomes all difficulties and will be the recipient of all types of riches at every step. View quote
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He who befriends a man whose conduct is vicious, whose vision impure, and who is notoriously crooked, is rapidly ruined. (Chanakya)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Water is the medicine for indigestion it is invigorating when the food that is eaten is well digested it is like nectar when drunk in the middle of a dinner and it is like poison when taken at the end of a meal. View quote
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He whose son is obedient to him, whose wife's conduct is in accordance with his wishes, and who is content with his riches, has his heaven here on earth. View quote
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He who loses his money is forsaken by his friends, his wife, his servants and his relations yet when he regains his riches those who have forsaken him come back to him. Hence wealth is certainly the best of relations. View quote
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Foolishness is indeed painful, and verily so is youth, but more painful by far than either is being obliged in another person's house. View quote
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Do not keep company with a fool for as we can see he is a two-legged beast. Like an unseen thorn he pierces the heart with his sharp words. View quote
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It 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. View quote
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That man who is without religion and mercy should be rejected. A guru without spiritual knowledge should be rejected. The wife with an offensive face should be given up, and so should relatives who are without affection. (Chanakya)
Religion is preserved by wealth knowledge by diligent practice a king by conciliatory words and a home by a dutiful housewife. View quote
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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. View quote
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When one is consumed by the sorrows of life, three things give him relief offspring, a wife, and the company of the Lord's devotees. View quote
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Eschew wicked company and associate with saintly persons. Acquire virtue day and night, and always meditate on that which is eternal forgetting that which is temporary. View quote
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