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Chanakya
Indian
Politician
About the author
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.
Chanakya,
Indian
Politician
#Time
#Children
#Years
#Friends
#First
#Friend
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.
Chanakya,
Indian
Politician
#Peace
#Spiritual
#Happiness
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.
Chanakya,
Indian
Politician
#Heart
#Mind
#Speech
#Senses
#Purity
Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
Chanakya,
Indian
Politician
#Wife
#Friend
#Difficulty
#Duty
#Misfortune
#Adversity
The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.
Chanakya,
Indian
Politician
#Will
#Secrets
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.
Chanakya,
Indian
Politician
#People
#Work
#Failure
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.
Chanakya,
Indian
Politician
#Earth
#Power
#Truth
#Rest
#Sun
The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.
Chanakya,
Indian
Politician
#Flowers
#Wind
#Goodness
#Direction
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.
Chanakya,
Indian
Politician
#Books
#Knowledge
#Wealth
#Possession
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.
Chanakya,
Indian
Politician
#Man
#Effort
The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
Chanakya,
Indian
Politician
#Time
#Ability
#Man
#Purpose
#Knowledge
#Senses
The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
Chanakya,
Indian
Politician
#World
#Youth
#Power
#Woman
#Beauty
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.
Chanakya,
Indian
Politician
#Disease
#Mind
#Virtue
#Happiness
#Contentment
#Mercy
#Covetousness
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
Chanakya,
Indian
Politician
#Self
#Truth
#Friendship
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.
Chanakya,
Indian
Politician
#Wife
#Mother
#Night
#Sister
#HusbDay
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.
Chanakya,
Indian
Politician
#Past
#Men
#Present
#Future
Whores don't live in company of poor men, citizens never support a weak company and birds don't build nests on a tree that doesn't bear fruits.
Chanakya,
Indian
Politician
#Support
#Poor
#Men
#Birds
#Company
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.
Chanakya,
Indian
Politician
#Clouds
#Wealth
#Sea
#Water
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.
Chanakya,
Indian
Politician
#Man
#Poison
Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.
Chanakya,
Indian
Politician
#Being
#Execution
#Thought
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.
Chanakya,
Indian
Politician
#Life
#End
#Man
#Insects
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.
Chanakya,
Indian
Politician
#Man
#Hell
#Consequences
#Karma
A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
Chanakya,
Indian
Politician
#People
#First
#Trees
As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.
Chanakya,
Indian
Politician
#Family
#Son
#Causes
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?
Chanakya,
Indian
Politician
#Death
#Control
#Soul
#Body
As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.
Chanakya,
Indian
Politician
#Fear
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.
Chanakya,
Indian
Politician
#Work
#Successful
#Will
#Questions
#Results
#Answers
A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
Chanakya,
Indian
Politician
#Man
#Deeds
Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.
Chanakya,
Indian
Politician
#Trees
Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
Chanakya,
Indian
Politician
#People
#Will
#Friends
#Happiness
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
Chanakya,
Indian
Politician
#Youth
#Friend
#Education
#Beauty
Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.
Chanakya,
Indian
Politician
God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.
Chanakya,
Indian
Politician
#God
#Present
#Soul
#Feelings
#Temple
#Idols
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.
Chanakya,
Indian
Politician
#Fear
#Family
#Sorrow
#Grief
He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.
Chanakya,
Indian
Politician
#Heart
#May
#Mind
If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?
Chanakya,
Indian
Politician
#Man
#Virtue
#Value
#Fame
It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life.
Chanakya,
Indian
Politician
#Life
#Day
#Disgrace
#Grief
#Causes
#Loss
Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
Chanakya,
Indian
Politician
#Books
#Blind
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.
Chanakya,
Indian
Politician
#People
#Sleep