Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
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Quotes by Chanakya
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A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.
A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.
A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.
A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.
The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.
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.
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.
The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.
Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.
There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.
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.
Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.
There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.
Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
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.
As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.
The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.
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