Chanakya Quotes - Page 4

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• Enemies strike at weak points.

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  Political, Enemy, Weak Points

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• Lakshmi, the Goddess of wealth, comes of Her own accord where fools are not respected, grain is well stored up, and the husband and wife do not quarrel.

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  Husband, Wife, Fool

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• Your feelings are your god.

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  Positivity, Feelings

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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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• The forest fire burns even tree like sandalwood.

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  Fire, Tree, Political

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• If one limb of the body is defected or inflicted with, disease, the whole feels tha pai. Some way if any department, minister or official of the state is faulty, the whole country is effected. An administrator should try hard to curb it.

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  Country, Political, Trying

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• The fire of the forest burns trees to ashes. Even expensive sandalwood tree which is endowed with qualities of cooling and fragrance, cannot escape from burning. In the same way wicked cause harm to their benefactors also.

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  Fire, Tree, Political

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• One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

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  Inspirational, Book, Wealth Of Knowledge

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• One destitute of wealth is not destitute, he is indeed rich, but the man devoid of learning is destitute in every way.

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  Learning, Men, Way

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• We should always speak what would please the man of whom we expect a favour,like the hunter who sings sweetly when he desires to shoot a deer.

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  Men, Religion, Desire

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• That man who is without religion and mercy should be rejected. A guru without spiritual knowledge should be rejected. The wife with an offensive face should be given up, and so should relatives who are without affection.

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  Spiritual, Men, Wife

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• He who runs away from a fearful calamity, a foreign invasion, a terrible famine, and the companionship of wicked men is safe.

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  Running, Wisdom, Men

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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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• Those born blind cannot see; similarly blind are those in the grip of lust. Proud men have no perception of evil; and those bent on acquiring riches see no sin in their actions.

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  Eye, Men, Evil

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• The king shall lose no time when the opportunity waited for arrives.

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  Kings, Integrity, Opportunity

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• Save your wealth against future calamity. Do not say, "what fear has a rich man of calamity?" Wealth sometimes vanishes away and large accumulations perish.

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  Men, Sometimes, Wealth

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• Let not a single day pass without your learning a verse, half a verse, or a fourth of it, or even one letter of it; nor without attending to charity, study and other pious activity.

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  Half, Charity, Letters

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• He who wears unclean garments, has dirty teeth, is a glutton, speaks unkindly and sleeps after sunrise - although he may be the greatest personality - will lose the favour of Lakshmi.

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  Dirty, Sleep, Personality

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• As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

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  Family, Son, Tree

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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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• What good is a cow that neither gives milk nor conceives? Similarly, what is the value of the birth of a son if he becomes neither learned nor a pure devotee of the Lord?

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  Son, Giving, Cows

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• There are three gems upon this earth; food, water, and pleasing words - fools (mudhas) consider pieces of rocks as gems.

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  Wisdom, Rocks, Water

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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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• 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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• No one should ever be disrespected.

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  Political, Should, Disrespected

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