Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Do not put your trust in a bad companion nor even trust an ordinary friend, for if he should get angry with you, he may bring all your secrets to light.
Chanakya
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Chanakya
Advisor
Astrologer
Economist
Philosopher
Politician
Teacher
Writer
Vishnu Gupta
Kautilya
Bring
Secret
Light
Companion
May
Secrets
Even
Angry
Ordinary
Friend
Trust
More quotes by Chanakya
Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.
Chanakya
God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.
Chanakya
Skills are called hidden treasure as they save like a mother in a foreign country.
Chanakya
The ruler should employ person in tasks according to their abilities because Knowers ( or the means ) and efficient employees make impossible tasks also possible.
Chanakya
Our bodies are perishable, wealth is not at all permanent and death is always nearby. Therefore we must immediately engage in acts of merit.
Chanakya
Low minded people are fraudulent, wicked and chaeat. They shouldnot be trusted. To h ave faith in low minded ones is mistake in policy and useless because they are not trustworthy. An administrator should not invited calamity by trusting the low minded ones.
Chanakya
As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.
Chanakya
Every relationship has one or the other motive behind it. Friendship or enemity are not purposeless.Oneness of motive is turned into friendship. While diversity of motive cause enemity. Royal relationships also depend uypon one or theother purpose. But such relatins ar mainly for the welfare of the state.
Chanakya
For the protection of state and welfare of the people, a ruler shold collect all types of wealth. By suing devices of sama, dama , danda, bheda , he shold increase income of the state, strong administration helps in collecting different type of taxes fro exchequer.
Chanakya
A person becomes great not be sitting on some high seat, but through higher qualities. Can a crow become an eagle by simply sitting on the top of a palatial building?
Chanakya
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
If the bees which seek the liquid oozing from the head of a lust-intoxicated elephant are driven away by the flapping of his ears, then the elephant has lost only the ornament of his head. The bees are quite happy in the lotus filled lake.
Chanakya
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
A low-minded person should not be given good advice.
Chanakya
Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.
Chanakya
If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?
Chanakya
Learning is a friend on the journey a wife in the house medicine in sickness and religious merit is the only friend after death.
Chanakya
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
Task performed by an unintelligent person should not be rated high.
Chanakya
She is a true wife who is clean (suci), expert, chaste, pleasing to the husband, and truthful.
Chanakya
