Chanakya Quotes - Page 8

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• Who realises all the happiness he desires? Everything is in the hands of God. Therefore one should learn contentment.

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  Wisdom, Hands, Contentment

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• 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.

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  Grief, Giving, Wife

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• Many a bad habit is developed through overindulgence, and many a good one by chastisement; therefore, beat your son as well as your pupil; never indulge them.

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  Son, Habit, Pupils

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• As water collected in a tank gets pure by filtration, so accumulated wealth is preserved by being employed in charity.

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  Water, Tanks, Charity

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• There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.

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  Inspirational, Men, Wicked

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• Swans live wherever there is water, and leave the place where water dries up; let not a man act so - and comes and goes as he pleases.

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  Wisdom, Men, Swans

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• Moral excellence is an ornament for personal beauty; righteous conduct, for high birth; success for learning; and proper spending for wealth.

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  Wisdom, Excellence, Ornaments

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• Sometimes coincidentally an unintelligent person can accomplish a task but that does not mean that he is a knower of means and device or is experienced. A ruler should be careful enough to designate other tasks to such persons.

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  Mean, Political, Doe

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• He who shall practice these twenty virtues shall become invincible in all his undertakings.

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  Practice, Twenties, Virtue

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• 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.

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  Wise, Men, Medicine

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• By means of hearing one understands dharma, malignity vanishes, knowledge is acquired, and liberation from material bondage is gained.

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  Wisdom, Mean, Hearing

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• The demerits of our own people bringh infamiy. Their disgrace is our own disgrace. That is why infamy os such people relly hurts . It is desifrable that the ruler or the administrator may work in a way that such disgraceful conduct may not occur.

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  Hurt, People, Political

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• We should not feel pride in our charity, austerity, valour, scriptural knowledge, modestyandmorality for the world is full of the rarest gems.

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  Wisdom, Pride, World

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• It is better to live under a tree in a jungle inhabited by tigers and elephants, to maintain oneself in such a place with ripe fruits and spring water, to lie down on grass and to wear the ragged barks of trees than to live amongst one's relations when reduced to poverty.

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  Spring, Lying, Elephants

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• He who has wealth has friends.

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  Wealth

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• The king shall singly deliberate over secret matters; for ministers have their own ministers, and these latter some of their own; this kind of successive line of ministers tends to the disclosure of counsels.

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  Kings, Secret, Lines

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• For the protection of state and welfare of the people, a ruler shold collect all types of wealth. By suing devices of sama, dama , danda, bheda , he shold increase income of the state, strong administration helps in collecting different type of taxes fro exchequer.

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  Strong, People, Political

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• Do not pass between two brahmanas, between a brahmana and his sacrificial fire, between a wife and her husband, a master and his servant, and a plough and an ox.

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  Husband, Fire, Two

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• The man who is praised by others is regarded as worthy though he may be really void of all merit. But the man who sings his own praises becomes disgraced though he should be Indra, the possessor of all excellencies.

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  Men, Merit, May

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• Education beats the beauty and the youth.

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  Education, Learned Person, Youth

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• The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

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  Education, Spiritual, Moving

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• If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

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  Men, Virtue, Fame

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• When one is consumed by the sorrows of life, three things give him relief: offspring, a wife, and the company of the Lord's devotees.

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  Wisdom, Giving, Wife

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• Love or affection towards an individual or nation, is indicated by good action snot merely be words. The adoration towards nation is expressed by works of welfare equally done by the ruler and theruled. The ruler himself must be engatged, in welfare of th country and also should select officials examining their involvement with the public god. Self-centered people greedy of the power should be kept away

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  Country, Self, People

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• The Goddess of wealth is unsteady, and so is the life breath. The duration of life is uncertain, and the place of habitation is uncertain; but in all this inconsistent world religious merit alone is immovable.

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  Religious, World, Duration

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