Chanakya

     Chanakya was an Indian teacher, philosopher, and royal advisor. Originally a professor of economics and political science at the ancient Takshashila University, Chanakya managed the first Maurya emperor Chandragupta's rise to power at a young age.

Chanakya's Quotes

• As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.
• A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and Honest people are screwed first. 
• 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. 
• 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. 
• 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. 
• The biggest guru-mantra is: Never share your secrets with anybody. If you cannot keep secret with you , do not expect that other will keep it. ! It will destroy you. 
• There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no Friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth. 
• People's Fury is above all the furies. 
• God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple. 
• Education is the Best Friend. An Educated Person is Respected Everywhere. Education beats the Beauty and the Youth. 
• 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. 
• 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. 
• Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.
• Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness. 
• Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person. 
• Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune. 
• 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. 
• One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises. 
• As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family. 
• 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. 
• He whose son is obedient to him, whose wife's conduct is in accordance with his wishes, and who is content with his riches has his heaven here on earth. 
• Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher full of poison with milk on top. 
• As water collected in a tank gets pure by filtration, so accumulated wealth is preserved by being employed in charity. 
• Time perfects men as well as destroys them.
• It is better to have only one son endowed with good qualities than a hundred devoid of them. For the moon though one, dispels the darkness, which the stars, though numerous, do not. 
• A wicked wife, a false friend, a saucy servant and living in a house with a serpent in it are nothing but death. 
• Do not put your trust in rivers, men who carry weapons, beasts with claws or horns, women, and members of a royal family. 
• Those parents who do not educate their sons are their enemies; for as is a crane among swans, so are ignorant sons in a public assembly. 
• Trees on a riverbank, a woman in another man's house, and kings without counselors go without doubt to swift destruction. 
• Lakshmi, the Goddess of wealth, comes of Her own accord where fools are not respected, grain is well stored up, and the husband and wife do not quarrel. 
• 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. 
• A father who is a chronic debtor, an adulterous mother, a beautiful wife, and an unlearned son are enemies in one's own home. 
• 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. 
• Beauty is spoiled by an immoral nature; noble birth by bad conduct; learning, without being perfected; and wealth by not being properly utilised. 
• There are three gems upon this earth; food, water, and pleasing words -- fools consider pieces of rocks as gems.