Chanakya Quotes


35 quotes:

"All the creatures are pleased by loving words; and therefore we should address words that are pleasing to all, for there is no lack of sweet words."
Author: Chanakya Quotes Category: Words Quotes
"No messenger can travel about in the sky and no tidings come from there. The voice of its inhabitants as never heard, nor can any contact be established with them."
Author: Chanakya Quotes Category: Travel Quotes
"He who desires sense gratification must give up all thoughts of acquiring knowledge; and he who seeks knowledge must not hope for sense gratification."
Author: Chanakya Quotes Category: Knowledge Quotes
"He who is not shy in the acquisition of wealth, grain and knowledge, and in taking his meals, will be happy"
Author: Chanakya Quotes Category: Knowledge Quotes
"Even a pandit comes to grief by giving instruction to a foolish disciple, by maintaining a wicked wife, and by excessive familiarity with the miserable."
Author: Chanakya Quotes Category: Giving Quotes
"Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth."
Author: Chanakya Quotes Category: Education Quotes French Director Quotes
"O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet."
Author: Chanakya Quotes Category: Man Quotes French Director Quotes
"Foolishness is indeed painful, and verily so is youth, but more painful by far than either is being obliged in another person's house."
Author: Chanakya Quotes Category: Fools And Foolishness Quotes
"Fate makes a beggar a king and a king a beggar. He makes a rich man poor and a poor man rich."
Author: Chanakya Quotes Category: Fate Quotes
"The hearts of base men burn before the fire of other's fame, and they slander them being themselves unable to rise to such a high position."
Author: Chanakya Quotes Category: Fame Quotes
"Those born blind cannot see; similarly blind are those in the grip of lust. Proud men have no perception of evil; and those bent on acquiring riches see no sin in their actions."
Author: Chanakya Quotes Category: Evil Quotes
"The learned are envied by the foolish; rich men by the poor; chaste women by adulteresses; and beautiful ladies by ugly ones."
Author: Chanakya Quotes Category: Envy Quotes
"There is no disease (so destructive) as lust; no enemy like infatuation; no fire like wrath; and no happiness like spiritual knowledge."
Author: Chanakya Quotes Category: Disease Quotes
"Generosity, pleasing address, courage and propriety of conduct are not acquired, but are inbred qualities."
Author: Chanakya Quotes Category: Courage Quotes
"For one whose heart melts with compassion for all creatures; what is the necessity of knowledge, liberation, matted hair on the head, and smearing the body with ashes."
Author: Chanakya Quotes Category: Compassion Quotes
"Whores don't live in company of poor men, citizens never support a weak company and birds don't build nests on a tree that doesn't bear fruits."
Author: Chanakya Quotes Category: Company Quotes French Director Quotes
"Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear."
Author: Chanakya Quotes Category: Charity Quotes
"A woman does not become holy by offering by charity, by observing hundreds of fasts, or by sipping sacred water, as by sipping the water used to wash her husbands feet."
Author: Chanakya Quotes Category: Charity Quotes
"For the moon, though one, dispels the darkness, which the stars, though numerous, can not."
Author: Chanakya Quotes Category: Character Quotes
"He who is engrossed in family life will never acquire knowledge; there can be no mercy in the eater of flesh; the greedy man will not be truthful; and purity will not be found in a woman a hunter."
Author: Chanakya Quotes Category: Character Quotes

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