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Chanakya Quotes

«Men reap the fruits of their deeds, and intellects bear the mark of deeds performed in previous lives; even so the wise act after due circumspection.»
«I consider him who does not act religiously as dead though living, but he who dies acting religiously unquestionably lives long though he is dead.»
Author: Chanakya (Politician, strategist, Writer) | Keywords: dies
«That man who is without religion and mercy should be rejected. A guru without spiritual knowledge should be rejected. The wife with an offensive face should be given up, and so should relatives who are without affection.»
«He who befriends a man whose conduct is vicious, whose vision impure, and who is notoriously crooked, is rapidly ruined.»
«Learning is a friend on the journey; a wife in the house; medicine in sickness; and religious merit is the only friend after death.»
«A wise man should not divulge the formula of a medicine which he has well prepared; an act of charity which he has performed; domestic conflicts; private affairs with his wife; poorly prepared food he may have been offered; or slang he may have heard.»
«Conciliate a strong man by submission, a wicked man by opposition, and the one whose power is equal to yours by politeness or force.»
«Wise men should never go into a country where there are no means of earning one's livelihood, where the people have no dread of anybody, have no sense of shame, no intelligence, or a charitable disposition.»
«A wicked wife, a false friend, a saucy servant and living in a house with a serpent in it are nothing but death.»
«Who is there who, having become rich, has not become proud? What licentious man has put an end to his calamities? What man in this world has not been overcome by a woman? Who is always loved by the king?»