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Letter "C" » Chanakya Quotes
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«A man is great by deeds, not by birth.»
«Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear.»
«What is there to be enjoyed in the world of Lord Indra for one whose wife is loving and virtuous, who possesses wealth, who has a well-behaved son endowed with good qualities, and who has a grandchildren born of his children?»
Author: Chanakya
(Politician, strategist, Writer)
| Keywords:
behaved, endowing, endows, enjoyed, grandchildren, possesses, qualities
«Give up a member to save a family, a family to save a village, a village to save a country, and the country to save yourself.»
«The prostitute has to forsake a man who has no money, the subject a king that cannot defend him, the birds a tree that bears no fruit, and the guests a house after they have finished their meals.»
Author: Chanakya
(Politician, strategist, Writer)
| Keywords:
bears, birds, forsakes, guests, meals, prostituted
«They alone are sons who are devoted to their father. He is a father who supports his sons. He is a friend in whom we can confide, and she only is a wife in whose company the husband feels contented and peaceful.»
«Even a pandit comes to grief by giving instruction to a foolish disciple, by maintaining a wicked wife, and by excessive familiarity with the miserable.»
«There are two ways to get rid of thorns and wicked persons; using footwear in the first case and in the second shaming them so that they cannot raise their faces again thus keeping them at a distance.»
«It is better to live under a tree in a jungle inhabited by tigers and elephants, to maintain oneself in such a place with ripe fruits and spring water, to lie down on grass and to wear the ragged barks of trees than to live amongst one's relations when reduced to poverty.»
«It is better to be without a kingdom than to rule over a petty one; better to be without a friend than to befriend a rascal; better to be without a disciple than to have a stupid one; and better to be without a wife than to have a bad one.»
Author: Chanakya
(Politician, strategist, Writer)
| Keywords:
befriended, befriending, befriends, pettier
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