Famous Quotes

Quotes by Chanakya

• 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.
• As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.
• 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?
• As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.
• 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.
• Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
• God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.
• 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.
• If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?
• Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
• The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
• 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.
• There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
• 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.
• 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.