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CHANAKYA A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma al...
CHANAKYA O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received b...
CHANAKYA Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who des...
CHANAKYA A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
CHANAKYA A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
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CHANAKYA God doesn't dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoug...
CHANAKYA Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.
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CHANAKYA The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not a...
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CHANAKYA As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.
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CHANAKYA Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never giv...
CHANAKYA Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty...
CHANAKYA We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment d...
CHANAKYA Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees...
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CHANAKYA Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, ...
CHANAKYA The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
CHANAKYA The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.
CHANAKYA One should save his money against hard times, save his wife at the sacrifice of his riches, but inva...
CHANAKYA My dear child, if you desire to be free from the cycle of birth and death, then abandon the objects ...
CHANAKYA The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spr...
CHANAKYA Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and the of a compassionate heart are needed by one who...
CHANAKYA Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one's own...
CHANAKYA What is too heavy for the strong and what place is too distant for those who put forth effort?
CHANAKYA Do not keep company with a fool for as we can see he is a two-legged beast. Like an unseen thorn he ...
CHANAKYA One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use ne...
CHANAKYA Those born blind cannot see; similarly blind are those in the grip of lust. Proud men have no percep...
CHANAKYA Those men who are happy in this world, who are generous towards their relatives, kind to strangers, ...
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CHANAKYA Moral excellence is an ornament for personal beauty; righteous conduct, for high birth; success for ...
CHANAKYA Perfection can be achieved only through devotion (to the Supreme Lord) for devotion is the basis of ...
CHANAKYA To have ability for eating when dishes are ready at hand, to be robust and virile in the company of ...
CHANAKYA What is the use of having many sons if they cause grief and vexation?
CHANAKYA They alone are sons who are devoted to their father. He is a father who supports his sons. He is a f...
CHANAKYA Accumulated wealth is saved by spending just as incoming fresh water is saved by letting out stagnan...
CHANAKYA If the bees which seek the liquid oozing from the head of a lust-intoxicated elephant are driven awa...
CHANAKYA What vice could be worse than covetousness? What is more sinful than slander? For one who is truthfu...
CHANAKYA Among men the barber is cunning; among birds the crow; among beasts the jackal; and among women, the...
CHANAKYA Brass is polished by ashes; copper is cleaned by tamarind; a woman, by her menses; and a river by it...
CHANAKYA He who forsakes his own community and joins another perishes as the king who embraces an unrighteous...
CHANAKYA As a calf follows its mother among a thousand cows, so the (good or bad) deeds of a man follow him.
CHANAKYA Fate makes a beggar a king and a king a beggar. He makes a rich man poor and a poor man rich.
CHANAKYA We should secure and keep the following: the blessings of meritorious deeds, wealth, grain, the word...
CHANAKYA Learning is a friend on the journey; a wife in the house; medicine in sickness; and religious merit ...
CHANAKYA O see what a wonder it is! The doings of the great are strange: they treat wealth as light as a stra...
CHANAKYA Do not say, ""What what fear has a rich man of calamity?"" When riches begin to forsake one even the...
CHANAKYA Even a pandit comes to grief by giving instruction to a foolish disciple, by maintaining a wicked wi...
CHANAKYA As is the desire of Providence, so functions one's intellect; one's activities are also controlled b...
CHANAKYA He should be considered to be living who is virtuous and pious, but the life of a man who is destitu...
CHANAKYA Friendship between equals flourishes, service under a king is respectable, it is good to be business...
CHANAKYA He whose hands are clean does not like to hold an office; he who desires nothing cares not for bodil...
CHANAKYA In this world, whose family is there without blemish? Who is free from sickness and grief? Who is fo...
CHANAKYA A man who encounters the following three is unfortunate; the death of his wife in his old age, the e...
CHANAKYA It is better to live under a tree in a jungle inhabited by tigers and elephants, to maintain oneself...
CHANAKYA Residing in a small village devoid of proper living facilities, serving a person born of a low famil...
CHANAKYA That man who is without religion and mercy should be rejected. A guru without spiritual knowledge sh...
CHANAKYA He who shall practice these twenty virtues shall become invincible in all his undertakings.
CHANAKYA Even as the unborn babe is in the womb of his mother, these five are fixed as his life destiny: his ...
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CHANAKYA Rain which falls upon the sea is useless; so is food for one who is satiated; in vain is a gift for ...
CHANAKYA The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge...
CHANAKYA By preparing a garland for a Deity with one's own hand; by grinding sandal paste for the Lord with o...
CHANAKYA As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destro...
CHANAKYA A thing may be dreaded as long as it has not overtaken you, but once it has come upon you, try to ge...
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CHANAKYA It is better to be without a kingdom than to rule over a petty one; better to be without a friend th...
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CHANAKYA He who is engrossed in family life will never acquire knowledge; there can be no mercy in the eater ...
CHANAKYA Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny ...
CHANAKYA Although an ass is tired, he continues to carry his burden; he is unmindful of cold and heat; and he...
CHANAKYA Therefore kings gather round themselves men of good families, for they never forsake them either at ...
CHANAKYA Do not put your trust in a bad companion nor even trust an ordinary friend, for if he should get ang...
CHANAKYA Water is the medicine for indigestion; it is invigorating when the food that is eaten is well digest...
CHANAKYA A single son endowed with good qualities is far better than a hundred devoid of them.
CHANAKYA The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and ...
CHANAKYA Do not put your trust in rivers, men who carry weapons, beasts with claws or horns, women, and membe...
CHANAKYA The house of a childless person is a void, all directions are void to one who has no relatives, the ...
CHANAKYA Offspring, friends and relatives flee from a devotee of the Lord: yet those who follow him bring mer...
CHANAKYA Separation from the wife, disgrace from one's own people, an enemy saved in battle, service to a wic...
CHANAKYA By going to the den of a lion pearls from the head of an elephant may be obtained; but by visiting t...
CHANAKYA The hearts of base men burn before the fire of other's fame, and they slander them being themselves ...
CHANAKYA We should always deal cautiously with fire, water, women, foolish people, serpents, and members of a...
CHANAKYA The beauty of a cuckoo is in its notes, that of a woman in her unalloyed devotion to her husband, th...
CHANAKYA Contentment with little or nothing to eat although one may have a great appetite; to awaken instantl...
CHANAKYA The hand is not so well adorned by ornaments as by charitable offerings; one does not become clean b...
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CHANAKYA Wise men should never go into a country where there are no means of earning one's livelihood, where ...
CHANAKYA Learning is like a cow of desire. It, like her, yields in all seasons. Like a mother, it feeds you o...
CHANAKYA He who possesses intelligence is strong; how can the man that is unintelligent be powerful? The elep...
CHANAKYA How can people be made happy in a petty kingdom? What peace can we expect from a rascal friend? What...
CHANAKYA He whose son is obedient to him, whose wife's conduct is in accordance with his wishes, and who is c...
CHANAKYA He who regards another's wife as his mother, the wealth that does not belong to him as a lump of mud...
CHANAKYA O jackal, leave aside the body of that man at once, whose hands have never given in charity, whose e...
CHANAKYA A wise man should not divulge the formula of a medicine which he has well prepared; an act of charit...
CHANAKYA Those parents who do not educate their sons are their enemies; for as is a crane among swans, so are...
CHANAKYA Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitc...
CHANAKYA Excessive attachment to sense pleasures leads to bondage, and detachment from sense pleasures leads ...
CHANAKYA Let not a single day pass without your learning a verse, half a verse, or a fourth of it, or even on...
CHANAKYA Even one who by his qualities appears to be all knowing suffers without patronage; the gem, though p...
CHANAKYA O lady, why are you gazing downward? Has something of yours fallen on the ground? (She replies) O fo...
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CHANAKYA Knowledge is lost without putting it into practice; a man is lost due to ignorance; an army is lost ...
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CHANAKYA For want of discernment the most precious jewels lie in the dust at the feet of men while bits of gl...
CHANAKYA A blade of grass is light, cotton is lighter, the beggar is infinitely lighter still. Why then does ...
CHANAKYA God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.
CHANAKYA There are two ways to get rid of thorns and wicked persons; using footwear in the first case and in ...
CHANAKYA The rain water enlivens all living beings of the earth both movable (insects, animals, humans, etc.)...
CHANAKYA Constant travel brings old age upon a man; a horse becomes old by being constantly tied up; lack of ...
CHANAKYA If the king is virtuous, then the subjects are also virtuous. If the king is sinful, then the subjec...
CHANAKYA Whores don't live in company of poor men, citizens never support a weak company and birds don't buil...
CHANAKYA The learned are envied by the foolish; rich men by the poor; chaste women by adulteresses; and beaut...
CHANAKYA He who gives up shyness in monetary dealings, in acquiring knowledge, in eating and in business, bec...
CHANAKYA A wise man should not reveal his loss of wealth, the vexation of his mind, the misconduct of his own...
CHANAKYA Save your wealth against future calamity.
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CHANAKYA He who has wealth has friends and relations; he alone survives and is respected as a man.
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CHANAKYA Who is there who has not been overcome by the ravages of time? What beggar has attained glory? Who h...
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CHANAKYA He who loses his money is forsaken by his friends, his wife, his servants and his relations; yet whe...
CHANAKYA As gold is tested in four ways by rubbing, cutting, heating and beating -- so a man should be tested...
CHANAKYA The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
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CHANAKYA Oil on water, a secret communicated to a base man, a gift given to a worthy receiver, and scriptural...
CHANAKYA Scriptural lessons not put into practice are poison; a meal is poison to him who suffers from indige...
CHANAKYA He who is prepared for the future and he who deals cleverly with any situation that may arise are bo...
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CHANAKYA For one whose heart melts with compassion for all creatures; what is the necessity of knowledge, lib...
CHANAKYA He who nurtures benevolence for all creatures within his heart overcomes all difficulties and will b...
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