Chanakya Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Chanakya

  Relationship, Adversity, Wife

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• Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one's own sins.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Evil, Tree

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• 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.

  Chanakya

  Life, Karma, Being Alone

  "Chanakya Neeti" by Chanakya, (p. 13), 2002.

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• Time perfects all living beings as well as kills them; it alone is awake when all others are asleep. Time is insurmountable.

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  Wisdom, Awake, Wells

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• Although an ass is tired, he continues to carry his burden; he is unmindful of cold and heat; and he is always contented; these three things should be learned from the ass.

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  Tired, Three, Heat

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• Knowledge is lost without putting it into practice; a man is lost due to ignorance; an army is lost without a commander; and a woman is lost without a husband.

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  Husband, Ignorance, Army

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• A low-minded person should not be given good advice.

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  Advice, Political, Lows

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• Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others destroy themselves like serpents that stray onto anthills.

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  Wisdom, Men, Secret

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• He who gives up shyness in monetary dealings, in acquiring knowledge, in eating and in business, becomes happy.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Giving Up, Acquiring Knowledge

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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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• If a king is energetic, his subjects will be equally energetic.

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  Kings, Energetic, Subjects

  "Arthashastra" by Kautilya, translated by R. Shamasastry, Book I, (Ch. 19), 1915.

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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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• 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.

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  Integrity, Mind, Contentment

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• The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

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  Beauty, Wisdom, World

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• Union in privacy (with one's wife); boldness; storing away useful items; watchfulness; and not easily trusting others; these five things are to be learned from a crow.

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  Wife, Crow, Unions

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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.

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  Best Friend, Wife, Riches

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• The foolish wish to speak out what was spoken in secret by the master.

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  Speaks Out, Political, Secret

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• He who look at a woman who is not his wife as a mother; wealth that is not his as dust and all the men as himself... is a happy man. He, who sees all these things under a different light, is a blind.

  Chanakya

  Mother, Men, Light

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• Love is indicated by deeds (and not by words)

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  Love Is, Political, Deeds

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• Skills are called hidden treasure as they save like a mother in a foreign country.

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  Mother, Country, Skills

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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 direction.

  Chanakya

  Education, Flower, Wind

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• A wicked wife, a false friend, a saucy servant and living in a house with a serpent in it are nothing but death.

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  Wife, House, Wicked

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• Prosperity lasts long for one who acts after proper consideration.

  Chanakya

  Inspirational, Long, Political

  "Maxims of Chanakya". Book by V. K. Subramanian, September 1980.

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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.

  Chanakya

  Bad Friend, Light, Secret

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• 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.

  Chanakya

  Inspirational, Dog, Kings

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