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Letter "C" » Chanakya Quotes
«Among men the barber is cunning; among birds the crow; among beasts the jackal; and among women, the malin (flower girl).»
Author: Chanakya
(Politician, strategist, Writer)
| Keywords:
barbered, Barbers, beasts, birds, Jackals
«Do not inhabit a country where you are not respected, cannot earn your livelihood, have no friends, or cannot acquire knowledge.»
«He who nurtures benevolence for all creatures within his heart overcomes all difficulties and will be the recipient of all types of riches at every step.»
Author: Chanakya
(Politician, strategist, Writer)
| Keywords:
creatures, difficulties, nurtured, nurtures, nurturing, overcame, overcomes, recipients, types
«Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.»
«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.»
Author: Chanakya
(Politician, strategist, Writer)
| Keywords:
abandon, abandons, happiest, sincerely, working
«Those men who are happy in this world, who are generous towards their relatives, kind to strangers, indifferent to the wicked, loving to the good, shrewd in their dealings with the base, frank with the learned, courageous with enemies, humble with elders and stern with the wife.»
«Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.»
«God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.»
«One should save his money against hard times, save his wife at the sacrifice of his riches, but invariably one should save his soul even at the sacrifice of his wife and riches.»
«The beauty of a cuckoo is in its notes, that of a woman in her unalloyed devotion to her husband, that of an ugly person in his scholarship, and that of an ascetic in his forgiveness.»
Author: Chanakya
(Politician, strategist, Writer)
| Keywords:
ascetics, cuckoos, devotions, notes, noting
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