Chanakya Quotes About Wisdom
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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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Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others destroy themselves like serpents that stray onto anthills.
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Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.
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The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
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Moral excellence is an ornament for personal beauty; righteous conduct, for high birth; success for learning; and proper spending for wealth.
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Accumulated wealth is saved by spending just as incoming fresh water is saved by letting out stagnant water.
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By means of hearing one understands dharma, malignity vanishes, knowledge is acquired, and liberation from material bondage is gained.
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We should not feel pride in our charity, austerity, valour, scriptural knowledge, modestyandmorality for the world is full of the rarest gems.
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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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There are three gems upon this earth; food, water, and pleasing words - fools (mudhas) consider pieces of rocks as gems.
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As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?
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Do not keep company with a fool for as we can see he is a two-legged beast. Like an unseen thorn he pierces the heart with his sharp words.
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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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Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one's own sins.
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Beauty is spoiled by an immoral nature; noble birth by bad conduct; learning, without being perfected; and wealth by not being properly utilised.
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The power of a king lies in his mighty arms; that of a brahmana in his spiritual knowledge; and that of a woman in her beauty youth and sweet words.
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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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Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.
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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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The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.
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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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The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.
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Generosity, pleasing address, courage and propriety of conduct are not acquired, but are inbred qualities.
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Who realises all the happiness he desires? Everything is in the hands of God. Therefore one should learn contentment.
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At the time of the pralaya (universal destruction) the oceans are to exceed their limits and seek to change, but a saintly man never changes.
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Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher of poison with milk on top.
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Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.
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She is a true wife who is clean (suci), expert, chaste, pleasing to the husband, and truthful.
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The man who remains a fool even in advanced age is really a fool, just as the Indra-Varuna fruit does not become sweet no matter how ripe it might become.
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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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