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Chanakya (Philosopher)

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.
— Chanakya love
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.
— Chanakya success
The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.
— Chanakya good
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
— Chanakya beauty
A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
— Chanakya man
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.
— Chanakya experience
A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
— Chanakya people
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
— Chanakya truth
Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
— Chanakya happiness
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.
— Chanakya art
He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.
— Chanakya fear
The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
— Chanakya beauty
Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
— Chanakya adversity
As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.
— Chanakya fear
The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.
— Chanakya man
The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.
— Chanakya art
The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.
— Chanakya people
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.
— Chanakya time
God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.
— Chanakya god
O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.
— Chanakya man
He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.
— Chanakya art
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.
— Chanakya man
The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.
— Chanakya life
There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.
— Chanakya happiness
Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.
— Chanakya end
If a king is energetic, his subjects will be equally energetic. If he is reckless, they will not only be reckless likewise, but also eat into his works. Besides, a reckless king will easily fall into the hands of his enemies. Hence the king shall ever be wakeful.Book I : Concerning Discipline Chapter 19 The Duties of a King
— Chanakya work
Virtuous persons and fruit laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.
— chanakya trees
Never believe the wicked though they are sweet tongued. The honey is only in the tip of their tongue–the heart is full of venom.
— chanakya art
Women eat double than men. They have four times more wisdom than men, they have six times more courage, and eight times more sensual urge than men.
— Chanakya wisdom
One should save money against hard times, save his wife against spending or sacrificing the money and one should save self at the cost of the wife and the riches.
— Chanakya time
The sounding of the mridanga drum in the kirtana Devotional singing is proclaiming loudly that those who have no devotion to Lord Krishna are very shameful and reprehensible. This is so because the mridanga sound diktum diktum, which means Oh! great shame! Oh! great shame!
— Chanakya sin
Book I : Concerning Discipline Chapter 4 Determination of the Place of Varta and of Dandaniti
— Chanakya art
He who opts out for an uncertain thing leaving behind the certain things, loses that which is in possession and fails to get what is already perishable.
— Chanakya read
If there is nectar in poison, it should be extracted; if gold is fallen in filth it should be taken out, washed and kept; if a low-born person possesses knowledge, he should be treated respectfully; in the same way a girl in the family of evil-doers be accepted, if she possess virtuous qualities.
— Chanakya knowledge
One should not inhabit a country where one gets no respect, no opportunity to earn once’s livelihood, where one has no friends or relatives, or from where one can not acquire knowledge.
— Chanakya knowledge

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