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. (Chanakya)

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.

Chanakya

Related topics

cut forest left ones see standing straight upright while dealings

Related quotes

While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again. View quote
Aesop
I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early. View quote
Thom Gunn
Look down at me and you see a fool; look up at me and you see a god; look straight at me and you see yourself. View quote
Charles Manson
When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter. View quote
Logan Pearsall Smith