Chanakya Quotes - Page 4

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

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  Kings, Integrity, Opportunity

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• As a calf follows its mother among a thousand cows, so the (good or bad) deeds of a man follow him.

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  Mother, Wisdom, Men

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• He whose son is obedient to him, whose wife's conduct is in accordance with his wishes, and who is content with his riches, has his heaven here on earth.

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  Son, Wife, Heaven

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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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• Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear.

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  Ignorance, Charity, Poverty

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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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• A tolerant person should not be harrased. The subject or the ruled ones generally is loyal to the ruler. The people tak to revolt when they are helpless. The duty of the ruler is that his humble people mey not tak to revolt being suppressed by his bad polity. Considering the forbearance of the subject, do not ill behave with them so that they may feel oppressed.

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  Humble, People, Political

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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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