Chanakya Quotes

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Women eat double than men. They have four times more wisdom than men, they have six times more courage, and eight times more sensual urge than men.

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He is a true friend and sincere relative who cooperates and stands by in time of need, depression, misfortune, famine, a war, in a king's court, or at he crematorium (the place of last rituals where the dead are put on a pyre).

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Whoever imposes severe punishment becomes repulsive to the people; while he who awards mild punishment becomes contemptible. But whoever imposes punishment as deserved becomes respectable. For punishment when awarded with due consideration, makes the people devoted to righteousness and to works productive of wealth and enjoyment; while punishment, when ill-awarded under the influence of greed and anger or owing to ignorance, excites fury even among hermits and ascetics dwelling in forests, not to speak of householders.

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Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.

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A wicked wife, a foolish friend, an ill tongued servant and a house infested with serpents will undoubtedly bring death.

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A person becomes great not be sitting on some high seat, but through higher qualities. Can a crow become an eagle by simply sitting on the top of a palatial building?

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Untruthfulness, rashness, guile, stupidity, avarice, unseemliness, and cruelty are a women's natural flaws.

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Test a servant while on his duty, and a relative in difficulty, test a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

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Save your wealth against unforeseen calamities without thinking that a rich man has no fear of calamity. Wealth has supple legs. Even saved riches are destroyed.

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It is a boon of extraordinary austerities to get healthy and delicious dishes, to eat them and to have a strong system to digest them, to have a beautiful socially accepted wife and to be virile in her company, and to have a longing and mental set up for charity in prosperity. All these are boons.

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If a king is energetic, his subjects will be equally energetic. If he is reckless, they will not only be reckless likewise, but also eat into his works. Besides, a reckless king will easily fall into the hands of his enemies. Hence the king shall ever be wakeful.

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All urgent calls he shall hear at once, but never put off; for when postponed, they will prove too hard or impossible to accomplish.

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The sounding of the mridanga (drum) in the kirtana (Devotional singing) is proclaiming loudly that those who have no devotion to Lord Krishna are very shameful and reprehensible. This is so because the mridanga sound diktum diktum, which means Oh! great shame! Oh! great shame!

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Do not be too straight or too soft; straight trees are cut down, but crooked trees remain standing.

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One should not inhabit a country where one gets no respect, no opportunity to earn once's livelihood, where one has no friends or relatives, or from where one can not acquire knowledge.

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He who opts out for an uncertain thing leaving behind the certain things, loses that which is in possession and fails to get what is already perishable.

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One should save money against hard times, save his wife against spending or sacrificing the money and one should save self at the cost of the wife and the riches.

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If there is nectar in poison, it should be extracted; if gold is fallen in filth it should be taken out, washed and kept; if a low-born person possesses knowledge, he should be treated respectfully; in the same way a girl in the family of evil-doers be accepted, if she possess virtuous qualities.

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Even a wise man comes to grief and feels depressions if he imparts instructions to a foolish disciple or when maintains a wicked wife or when comes in close contact with the miserable.

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