Chanakya Quotes

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• Don't judge the future of a person based on his present conditions, becausetime has the power to change black coal to shiny diamond.

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  Judging, Black, Coal

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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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  Integrity, Cutting, People

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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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  Wisdom, Trying, Poison

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• A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

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  Integrity, Men, Deeds

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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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  Inspirational, Beauty, Education

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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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  Inspirational, Encouraging, People

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• Everybody has same or the other weakness. This eis also a a general tendency to conceal theee weaknesses. For people may not harm for these, but they will surely ridicule or make fun of. Friendship, of course feigned should be retained with enemy till his weakness is known. Let him remain elated.

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  Fun, People, Political

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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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  Sister, Mother, Morning

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• The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

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  Education, Secret, Guru

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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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  Wisdom, Godly, Animal

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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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  Relationship, Adversity, Wife

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• God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.

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  God, Idols, Soul

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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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  Heart, Austerity, Vices

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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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  Inspirational, Children, Kids

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• A man attains greatness by his merits, not simply by occupying an exalted seat. Can we call a crow an eagle (garuda) simply because he sits on the top of a tall building.

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  Greatness, Men, Eagles

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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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  Wise, Men, Class

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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.

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  Wisdom, Religious, Journey

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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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  Education, Stupid, Book

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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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  Integrity, Past, Men

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• A ruler wishing to win shold not trust a cpterued enemy even if he may be extending had to be friend. Because deep rooted enemity, however, concealed, will ruerely come to light.

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  Winning, Light, Political

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• There is no disease so destructive as lust.

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  Lust, Disease, Destructive

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• As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

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  Inspirational, Wisdom, Emotion

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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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  Men, Eight, Two

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• 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.

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  Inspirational, Dog, Stupid People

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• The forest fire burns even tree like sandalwood.

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  Fire, Tree, Political

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