- Learn from the mistakes of others, you can’t live long enough to make them all yourselves.You really do not have to touch the fire to see how hot it is!
- A person should not be too honest, straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first. Honesty is not always the best strategy, sometimes it can turn fatal…History and Indian mythology has been witness to how honest people were the first to get screwed!
- Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous. Sometimes you’ll have to pretend…
- As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.
- A man is born and dies alone. He experiences the good and bad consequences of his Karma alone.
- People who work sincerely are the happiest.
- World’s biggest power is youth and the beauty of a woman.
- Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – why am I doing this, what the results might be and will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.
- Conciliate a covetous man by means of a gift, an obstinate man with folded hands in salutation, a fool by humoring him and a learned man by truthful words.
- Even from the poison extract nectar, wash and take back gold if it has fallen in filth, receive the highest knowledge from a lowborn person.
- There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
- The biggest guru-mantra is: Never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.
- Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendship will never give you happiness.
- If you get to learn something even from the worst of enemies; do not hesitate.
- Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher of poison with milk on top.
- An evil person causes harm even if treated well.
- A low-minded people should not be given a good advice.
- Till the time you don’t decide to run, you are not in the competition.
- The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of the person spreads in all directions.
- Time perfects men as well as destroys them.
- God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple
- We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.
- A man is born alone and dies alone, and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone, and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.
- No over attachment will never make you happy! He who is always attached to his family members experiences fear & sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.
- Nobody can ever defeat you, if education is your arms and combat… Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty & the youth.
- These ingredients make life meaningful and worth living.... There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind. There is no happiness equal to contentment. There is no disease like covetousness and no virtue like mercy.
- A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does & pleases him like a prostitute in the night.
- "O wise man, Give your wealth only to the worthy & never to others.The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet"
- "As long as your body is healthy and under control the death is distant. try to save your soul, when your death is immanent what can you do?"
- Wisdom is the combination of theory & practice. It raises the quality of governance & thus makes the rules more capable & efficient.
Chanakya (a well-known indian economist, political adviser, philosopher, professor of economics and political science at the ancient Takshashila University in Takshashila .He is also known by the names Kautilya or
Vishnu Gupta) and lived from 370 BC to 283 BC.
