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Chanakya Quotes

«If a man should feel before, as he feels after, repentance -- then who would not attain perfection?»
Author: Chanakya (Politician, strategist, Writer) | Keywords: feels
«How can he who seeks sense gratification acquire knowledge, and he who possesses knowledge enjoy mundane sense pleasure?»
«Consider again and again the following: the right time, the right friends, the right place, the right means of income, the right ways of spending, and from whom you derive your power.»
Author: Chanakya (Politician, strategist, Writer) | Keywords: incomes
«Fondle a son until he is five years of age, and use the stick for another ten years, but when he has attained his sixteenth year treat him as a friend.»
Author: Chanakya (Politician, strategist, Writer) | Keywords: fondles
«He who regards another's wife as his mother, the wealth that does not belong to him as a lump of mud, and the pleasure and pain of all other living beings as his own -- truly sees things in the right perspective, and he is a true pandit.»
«There is no water like rainwater; no strength like one's own; no light like that of the eyes; and no wealth more dear than food grain.»
«He who desires sense gratification must give up all thoughts of acquiring knowledge; and he who seeks knowledge must not hope for sense gratification.»
«The duration of life is uncertain, and the place of habitation is uncertain; but in all this inconsistent world religious merit alone is immovable.»
«Foolishness is indeed painful, and verily so is youth, but more painful by far than either is being obliged in another person's house.»
«The serpent may, without being poisonous, raise high its hood, but the show of terror is enough to frighten people -- whether he be venomous or not.»
Author: Chanakya (Politician, strategist, Writer) | Keywords: highs