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Best 56 Quotes by Chanakya – Page 2 of 2

“O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.”

“Once you start working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.”

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

“One should save money against hard times, save his wife against spending or sacrificing the money and one should save self at the cost of the wife and the riches.”

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

“Punishment when awarded with due consideration, makes the people devoted to righteousness and to works productive of wealth and enjoyment.”

“Religion is preserved by wealth; knowledge by diligent practice; a king by conciliatory words; and a home by a dutiful housewife.”

“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.”

“Test a servant while on his duty, and a relative in difficulty, test a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.”

“The biggest guru-mantra is: Never share your secrets with anybody. If you can not keep secret with you, do not expect that others will keep it? It will destroy you.”

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

“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 bite of insects.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.”

“There are three gems on this earth: food, water, and pleasing words – fools consider pieces of rocks as gems.”

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“There is no disease so destructive as lust.”

“There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.”

“Those parents who do not educate their sons are their enemies; for as is a crane among swans, so are ignorant sons in a public assembly.”

“Time perfects men as well as destroys them.”

“Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.”

“We return evil for evil, in which there is no sin, for it is necessary to pay a wicked man in his own coin.”

“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.”

“Wh*res don’t live in company of poor men, birds don’t build nests on a tree that doesn’t bear fruits and citizens never support a weak administration.”

“Whoever helps you at the time of illness, misfortune, famines and invasion is your true brother in real sense.”

“Women eat double than men. They have four times more wisdom than men, they have six times more courage, and eight times more sensual urge than men.”

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