Chanakya Quotes

CKANAKYA
x 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 and pleases
him like a prostitute in the night.
x An egoist can be won over by being respected, a crazy person can
be won over by allowing him to behave in an insane manner and a
wise person can be won over by truth.
x A human being should strive for four things in life - dharma (losely
means spirituality), arth (money), kaam (desires/work) and
moksha (salvation). A person who hasn't strived for even one of
these things has wasted life.
x A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
x A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and
honest people are screwed first.
x A rich man has many friends.
x As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.
x As centesimal droppings will fill a pot so also are knowledge,
virtue and wealth gradually obtained.
x A woman is four times as shy, six times as brave and eight times
as libidinous as a man.
x 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.
x 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.
x Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a
blind person.
x Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected
everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
x Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be
venomous.
x He who befriends a man whose conduct is vicious, whose vision
impure, and who is notoriously crooked, is rapidly ruined.
x If you get to learn something even from the worst of creatures,
don't hesistate.
x In a state where the ruler lives like a common man, the citizens
live like kings do. And in the state where the ruler lives like a king,
the citizens live like beggers do.
x Jealousy is another name for failure.
x Never make friends with people who are above or below you in
status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
x Once you start working on something, don't be afraid of failure
and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
x One who is in search of knowledge should give up the search of
pleasure and the one who is in search of pleasure should give up
the search of knowledge.
x The biggest guru-mantra is: Never share your secrets with
anybody. It will destroy you.
x There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no
friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
x The four greatest enemies of a man are - the father who has taken
a loan, the characterless mother, the beautiful but promiscuous
wife and the stupid child.
x The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind.
But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.
x The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
x 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. Your grown up children are your best friends.
x Whores don't live in company of poor men, citizens never support
a weak administration and birds don't build nests on a tree that
doesn't bear fruits.
x Never go on a long journey alone.
x 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 person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and
honest people are screwed first."
Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275
BC)
"Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous."

BC)
"The biggest guru-mantra is: Never share your secrets with anybody. It
will destroy you."
BC)
"There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no

friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth."
BC)
"! 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."
BC)
"As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it."
BC)
"The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman."

BC)
"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."
BC)
"The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But
the goodness of a person spreads in all direction."
BC)
"A man is great by deeds, not by birth."

BC)
"Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status.
Such friendships will never give you any happiness."
BC)
"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. Your grown up children are your best friends."
BC)
"Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind

person."
BC)
"Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected

everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth."
BC)
"You cannot tailor make your situation in life, but you can tailor make
your attitudes to fit those situations."
BC)
SRI CHANAKYA NITI-SASTRA
THE POLITICAL ETHICS OF CHANAKYA PANDIT
About 2300 years ago the Greek conqueror Alexander the Great invaded
the Indian sub-continent. His offensive upon the land's patchwork of
small Hindu empires proved to be highly successful due to the disunity
of the petty rulers. It was Chanakya Pandit who, feeling deeply
distressed at heart, searched for and discovered a qualified leader in the
person of Chandragupta Maurya. Although a mere dasi-putra, that is, a
son of a maidservant by the Magadha King Nanda, Chandragupta was
highly intelligent, courageous and physically powerful. Chanakya cared
little that by birth he should not have dared to approach the throne. A
man of acute discretion, Chanakya desired only that a ruler of
extraordinary capabilities be raised to the exalted post of King of
Magadha so that the offensive launched by the Yavanas (Greeks) could
be repressed.
It is said that Chanakya had been personally offended by King Nanda

and that this powerful brahmana had vowed to keep his long sikha
unknotted until he saw to the demise of the contemptuous ruler and his
drunken princes. True to his oath, it was only after Chanakya Pandit
engineered a swift death for the degraded and worthless rulers of the
Nanda dynasty that this great brahmana was able to again tie up his tuft
of hair. There are several versions relating the exact way that Chanakya
had set about eliminating the Nandas, and it appears historians have
found it difficult to separate fact from folk legend as regards to certain
specific details.

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CKANAKYA

"Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous."

"There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no

"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

"A man is great by deeds, not by birth."

"Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind

"Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected

SRI CHANAKYA NITI-SASTRA

THE POLITICAL ETHICS OF CHANAKYA PANDIT

It is said that Chanakya had been personally offended by King Nanda

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