Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Chanakya
Advisor
Astrologer
Economist
Philosopher
Politician
Teacher
Writer
Vishnu Gupta
Kautilya
Seek
Lake
Oozing
Filled
Liquid
Flapping
Head
Elephants
Lotuses
Quite
Bees
Lotus
Happy
Lakes
Ornament
Lost
Lust
Intoxicated
Away
Driven
Ornaments
Ears
Elephant
More quotes by 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
It is better to be without a king than to have a bad one.
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
He who loses his money is forsaken by his friends, his wife, his servants and his relations yet when he regains his riches those who have forsaken him come back to him. Hence wealth is certainly the best of relations.
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
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
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
Defect in one's limb ruins a man.
Chanakya
A low-minded person should not be given good advice.
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
We should always speak what would please the man of whom we expect a favour,like the hunter who sings sweetly when he desires to shoot a deer.
Chanakya
He shall despise none, but hear the opinions of all. A wise man shall make use of even a child's sensible utterance.
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
Time perfects men as well as destroys them.
Chanakya
A man attains greatness by his merits, not simply by occupying an exalted seat. Can we call a crow an eagle (garuda) simply because he sits on the top of a tall building.
Chanakya
A debt should be paid off till the last penny An enemy should be destroyed without a trace
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
One who is in search of knowledge should give up the search of pleasure and the one who is in search of pleasure should give up the search of knowledge.
Chanakya
For the moon though one, dispels the darkness, which the stars, though numerous, do not.
Chanakya
He who shall practice these twenty virtues shall become invincible in all his undertakings.
Chanakya
