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Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others, destroy themselves like the serpents in ant-hills.

CHANAKYA, Vridda-Chanakya

Men have hunger, sleep, fear and carnal intercourse in common with the lower animals. It is only knowledge that a man has more than they. Those men who have not it may be regarded as beasts.

CHANAKYA, Vridda-Chanakya

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.

CHANAKYA, Vridda-Chanakya

A thing may be dreaded as long as it has not overtaken you.

CHANAKYA, Vridda-Chanakya

He whose son is obedient to him, whose wife's conduct is in accordance with his wishes, and who is content with his riches has his heaven here on earth.

CHANAKYA, Vridda-Chanakya

The man who is foolish at the termination of his life shall always remain a fool.

CHANAKYA, Vridda-Chanakya

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

CHANAKYA, Vridda-Chanakya

It is better to die than preserve life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life only pains a moment, but disgrace every day of one's life.

CHANAKYA, Vridda-Chanakya

There is no disease so destructive as lust.

CHANAKYA, Vridda-Chanakya

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

CHANAKYA, Vridda-Chanakya

Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher full of poison with milk on top.

CHANAKYA, Vridda-Chanakya

Though men be endowed with beauty and youth, and be born in a noble family, yet without education, they are like a palas tree, which is void of any sweet smell.

CHANAKYA, Vridda-Chanakya

The man who is praised by others is regarded as worthy though he may be really void of all merit. But the man who sings his own praises becomes disgraced though he should be Indra, the possessor of all excellencies.

CHANAKYA, Vridda-Chanakya

As water collected in a tank gets pure by filtration, so accumulated wealth is preserved by being employed in charity.

CHANAKYA, Vridda-Chanakya

Truth upholds the earth; bu truth the Sun shines; the winds blow by truth; and everything else subsists by truth.

CHANAKYA, Vridda-Chanakya

If the king is pious, the subjects become so; but if the king is vicious, the subjects become the same. If he be indifferent to both (virtue and vice), then they too bear the same character. In short, as is the king so are his subjects.

CHANAKYA, Vridda-Chanakya

As a single dried tree, if fired, sets a whole forest on fire, so does a bad son destroy a whole family.

CHANAKYA, Vridda-Chanakya

He who has wealth has friends.

CHANAKYA, Vridda-Chanakya

The life, action, wealth, learning and death of a person are determined by God when he is in the womb.

CHANAKYA, Vridda-Chanakya

It is the mind of man alone that is the cause of his bondage or freedom.

CHANAKYA, Vridda-Chanakya

Time perfects men as well as destroys them.

CHANAKYA, Vridda-Chanakya

Learning is like a cow of desire. It, like her, yields in all seasons.

CHANAKYA, Vridda-Chanakya

It is better to be without a king than [to have] a bad one.

CHANAKYA, Vridda-Chanakya

It is better to have only one son endowed with good qualities than a hundred devoid of them. For the moon though one, dispels the darkness, which the stars, though numerous, do not.

CHANAKYA, Vridda-Chanakya


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