Chanakya Quotes - Page 3

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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.

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  Bad Friend, Light, Secret

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• He who has wealth has friends and relations; he alone survives and is respected as a man.

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  Wisdom, Men, Wealth

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• Time perfects men as well as destroys them.

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  Time, Integrity, Men

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• He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

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  Family, Education, Grief

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• Rain which falls upon the sea is useless; so is food for one who is satiated; in vain is a gift for one who is wealthy; and a burning lamp during the daytime is useless.

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  Rain, Fall, Sea

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• The learned are envied by the foolish; rich men by the poor; chaste women by adulteresses; and beautiful ladies by ugly ones.

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  Beautiful, Wisdom, Men

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• In trans-border relations, there are no permanent friends or permanent enemies or even permanent borders. There are only permanent interests and everything should be done to secure these interests.

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  Enemy, Borders, Done

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• Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

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  Friendship, Happiness, Wisdom

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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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• He who befriends a man whose conduct is vicious, whose vision impure, and who is notoriously crooked, is rapidly ruined.

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  Wisdom, Men, Vision

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• Wealth, a friend, a wife, and a kingdom may be regained; but this body when lost may never be acquired again.

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  Wisdom, Wife, Body

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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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• Do not put your trust in rivers, men who carry weapons, beasts with claws or horns, women, and members of a royal family.

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  Men, Rivers, Weapons

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• All the creatures are pleased by loving words; and therefore we should address words that are pleasing to all, for there is no lack of sweet words.

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  Sweet, Religion, Addresses

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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?

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  Wisdom, Men, Mirrors

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• A father who is a chronic debtor, an adulterous mother, a beautiful wife, and an unlearned son are enemies in one's own home.

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  Beautiful, Mother, Father

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• The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

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  Inspirational, Men, Effort

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• This world is a bitter tree, it has only two sweet nectar like fruits - one is soft voice and the other is company of gentlemen.

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  Sweet, Two, Voice

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• A learned man is honoured by the people.A learned man commands respect everywhere for his learning. Indeed, learning is honoured everywhere.

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  Wisdom, Men, People

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• He shall despise none, but hear the opinions of all. A wise man shall make use of even a child's sensible utterance.

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  Wise, Children, Men

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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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• 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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• Even as the unborn babe is in the womb of his mother, these five are fixed as his life destiny: his life span, his activities, his acquisition of wealth and knowledge, and his time of death.

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  Mother, Destiny, Religion

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• Our bodies are perishable, wealth is not at all permanent and death is always nearby. Therefore we must immediately engage in acts of merit.

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  Wisdom, Body, Merit

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• Sinfully acquired wealth may remain for ten years; in the eleventh year it disappears with even the original stock.

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  Years, Religion, May

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