Chanakya quotes
- A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
- Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.
- 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.
- Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.
- As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.
- The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
- 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.
- The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.
- 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.
- 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 them like a friend. Our grown up children are your best friends.
- Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
- Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
Chanakya (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC – 275 BC)
Source: Sajith Vijayan through Rajith Nair
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