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Wisdom Quotes by Chanakya
- Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
- The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
- As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.
- Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.
- 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…
- Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.
- 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…
- 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…
- He who runs away from a fearful calamity, a foreign invasion, a terrible famine, and the companionship of wicked men is safe.
- At the time of the pralaya (universal destruction) the oceans are to exceed their limits and seek to change, but a saintly man never changes.
- He who befriends a man whose conduct is vicious, whose vision impure, and who is notoriously crooked, is rapidly ruined.
- The man who remains a fool even in advanced age is really a fool, just as the Indra-Varuna fruit does not become sweet no matter…
- The cuckoos remain silent for a long time (for several seasons) until they are able to sing sweetly (in the Spring) so as to give…
- We should not feel pride in our charity, austerity, valour, scriptural knowledge, modestyandmorality for the world is full of the rarest gems.
- Wealth, a friend, a wife, and a kingdom may be regained; but this body when lost may never be acquired again.
- Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one's own sins.
- There are three gems upon this earth; food, water, and pleasing words - fools (mudhas) consider pieces of rocks as gems.
- As a calf follows its mother among a thousand cows, so the (good or bad) deeds of a man follow him.
- Who realises all the happiness he desires? Everything is in the hands of God. Therefore one should learn contentment.
- He who forsakes his own community and joins another perishes as the king who embraces an unrighteous path.
More Wisdom Quotes
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
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- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love. — Paulo Coelho
- Whoever travels without a guide, needs two hundred years for a two-day journey. — Unknown Author
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle