Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
A wicked wife, a false friend, a saucy servant and living in a house with a serpent in it are nothing but death.
Chanakya
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Chanakya
Advisor
Astrologer
Economist
Philosopher
Politician
Teacher
Writer
Vishnu Gupta
Kautilya
Servant
False
Friend
Wife
Living
Death
Saucy
House
Serpent
Nothing
Wicked
More quotes by Chanakya
What good can the scriptures do to a man who has no sense of his own? Of what use is as mirror to a blind man?
Chanakya
By means of hearing one understands dharma, malignity vanishes, knowledge is acquired, and liberation from material bondage is gained.
Chanakya
Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others destroy themselves like serpents that stray onto anthills.
Chanakya
Whores don’t live in company of poor men, citizens never support a weak company and birds don’t build nests on a tree that doesn’t bear fruits.
Chanakya
At the time of the pralaya (universal destruction) the oceans are to exceed their limits and seek to change, but a saintly man never changes.
Chanakya
Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.
Chanakya
My dear child, if you desire to be free from the cycle of birth and death, then abandon the objects of sense gratification as poison. Drink instead the nectar of forbearance, upright conduct, mercy, cleanliness and truth.
Chanakya
He who is prepared for the future and he who deals cleverly with any situation that may arise are both happy but the fatalistic man who wholly depends on luck is ruined.
Chanakya
Till the enemy's weakness is known , he should be kept on friendly terms.
Chanakya
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.
Chanakya
Swans live wherever there is water, and leave the place where water dries up let not a man act so - and comes and goes as he pleases.
Chanakya
The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.
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
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
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
Sometimes coincidentally an unintelligent person can accomplish a task but that does not mean that he is a knower of means and device or is experienced. A ruler should be careful enough to designate other tasks to such persons.
Chanakya
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
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
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
The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
Chanakya
