Swans live wherever there is water, and leave the place where water dries up; let not a man act so - and… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
He who has wealth has friends and relations; he alone survives and is respected as a man. — Chanakya Copy Share Image
When one is consumed by the sorrows of life, three things give him relief: offspring, a wife, and the company of the… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher of… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
By means of hearing one understands dharma, malignity vanishes, knowledge is acquired, and liberation from material bondage is gained. — Chanakya Copy Share Image
There are three gems upon this earth; food, water, and pleasing words - fools (mudhas) consider pieces of rocks as gems. — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Learning is a friend on the journey; a wife in the house; medicine in sickness; and religious merit is the only friend… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
She is a true wife who is clean (suci), expert, chaste, pleasing to the husband, and truthful. — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Accumulated wealth is saved by spending just as incoming fresh water is saved by letting out stagnant water. — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others destroy themselves like serpents that stray onto anthills. — Chanakya Copy Share Image
We should not feel pride in our charity, austerity, valour, scriptural knowledge, modestyandmorality for the world is full of the rarest gems. — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one's own sins. — Chanakya Copy Share Image
The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation. — Chanakya Copy Share Image
The ruler should employ person in tasks according to their abilities because Knowers ( or the means ) and efficient employees make impossible tasks also possible. — Chanakya Copy Share Image
The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Learning is like a cow of desire. It, like her, yields in all seasons. Like a mother, it feeds you on your journey. Therefore… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Who realises all the happiness he desires? Everything is in the hands of God. Therefore one should learn contentment. — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Every relationship has one or the other motive behind it. Friendship or enemity are not purposeless.Oneness of motive is turned into friendship. While diversity… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
The beauty of a cuckoo is in its notes, that of a woman in her unalloyed devotion to her husband, that of an ugly… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
What good is a cow that neither gives milk nor conceives? Similarly, what is the value of the birth of a son if he… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
