Chanakya Quotes
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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.
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Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.
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Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
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Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.
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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.
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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.
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The king who is situated anywhere immediately on the circumference of the conqueror's territory is termed the enemy.The king who is likewise situated close to the enemy, but separated from the conqueror only by the enemy, is termed the friend (of the conqueror).
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The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.
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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.
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Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
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There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
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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.
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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.
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As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.
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The area extending from the Himalayas in the north to the sea and a thousand yojanas wide from east to west is the area of operation of the King-Emperor.
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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.
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A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
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नास्ति खलस्य मित्रम्
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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.
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As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.