38 Quotes By Chanakya


A man is born alone and dies alone and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.
Chanakya on alone

The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
Chanakya on beauty

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
Chanakya on beauty

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
Chanakya on best

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.
Chanakya on best

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul when death is immanent what can you do?
Chanakya on death

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
Chanakya on education

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 on failure

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 on family

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.
Chanakya on family

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future men of discernment deal only with the present moment.
Chanakya on fear

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 on fear

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.
Chanakya on fear

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
Chanakya on friendship

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
Chanakya on friendship

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future men of discernment deal only with the present moment.
Chanakya on future

God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.
Chanakya on god

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.
Chanakya on good

A man is born alone and dies alone and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.
Chanakya on good

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?
Chanakya on good