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Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.
– Chanakya
2.
The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.
– Chanakya
3.
The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.
– Chanakya
4.
God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.
– Chanakya
5.
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.
– Chanakya
6.
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
7.
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.
– Chanakya
8.
Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
– Chanakya
9.
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
10.
The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
– Chanakya
11.
Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
– Chanakya
12.
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
13.
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
14.
It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.
– Chanakya
15.
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.
– Chanakya
16.
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
17.
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.
– Chanakya
18.
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?
– Chanakya
19.
A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
– Chanakya
20.
As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.
– Chanakya
21.
A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
– Chanakya
22.
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education
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beats the beauty and the youth.
– Chanakya
24.
Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.
– Chanakya
25.
If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?
– Chanakya
26.
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
27.
Friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.
– Chanakya
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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
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