Chanakya Quotes - Page 2

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

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  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.

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  Life, Karma, Being Alone

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

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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 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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• 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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• A permanent relationship is dependent on particular purpose or wealth.

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  Inspirational, Purpose, Wealth

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• One's weakness should not ever be revealed.

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  Political, Weakness, Should

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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 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.

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  Mother, Men, Light

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• An egoist can be won over by being respected, a crazy person can be won over by allowing him to behave in an insane manner and a wise person can be won over by truth.

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  Wise, Crazy, Insane

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

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  Love Is, Political, Deeds

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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.

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  Education, Flower, Wind

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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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• 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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• 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.

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  Inspirational, Long, Political

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

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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.

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  Inspirational, Dog, Kings

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• The low minded are fond of deception the nature of low-minded people never changes.

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  People, Political, Deception

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