Chanakya Quotes

Indian - Politician 350 BC - 275 BC

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

Wife, Good Wife, Like

The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you. - Chanakya

The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you. Chanakya

Will, Never, Biggest

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person. - Chanakya

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person. Chanakya

Stupid, Mirror, Blind

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions. Chanakya

Good, Fragrance, Spreads

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first. Chanakya

Screwed, Straight, Cut

The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman. - Chanakya

The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman. Chanakya

Beauty, World, Woman

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth. Chanakya

Friendship, Behind, Some

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

Treat, Next, By The Time

Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous. - Chanakya

Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous. Chanakya

Snake, Venomous, Even

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

Alone, Karma, Bad

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A man is great by deeds, not by birth. - Chanakya

A man is great by deeds, not by birth. Chanakya

Great, Birth, Deeds

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth. Chanakya

Education, Beauty, Educated

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

Small, King, Other

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

Work, Happiest, Sincerely

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

Forest, Very, Cut

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it. - Chanakya

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it. Chanakya

Fear, Attack, Destroy

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

Doing, Excellent, Learned

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

Work, Doing, Some

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness. Chanakya

Friendship, Give, Below

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune. Chanakya

Difficulty, Servant, His

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

Fear, Past, Deal

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

Mind, Purity, Senses

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

Knowledge, Wealth, Confined

God doesn't dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts. Chanakya

Thoughts, His, Wooden

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

Tail, Which, Protects

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

Fly, Mouth, Poison

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