Chanakya Quotes

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• 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…
• A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
• A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
• Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
• Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be…
• 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…
• Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
• The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.
• There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
• The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
• 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…
• God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.
• 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…
• The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.
• Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
• Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
• 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.
• 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…
• 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…
• As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

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