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Chanakya Quotes
«A blade of grass is light, cotton is lighter, the beggar is infinitely lighter still. Why then does not the wind carry him away? Because it fears that he may ask alms of him.»
Author: Chanakya
(Politician, strategist, Writer)
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Beggared, fears, grasses, grassing, lighters
«What good is a cow that neither gives milk nor conceives? Similarly, what is the value of the birth of a son if he becomes neither learned nor a pure devotee of the Lord?»
«Therefore with an eye to the public good, I shall speak that which, when understood, will lead to an understanding of things in their proper perspective.»
«A man who encounters the following three is unfortunate; the death of his wife in his old age, the entrusting of money into the hands of relatives, and depending upon others for food.»
Author: Chanakya
(Politician, strategist, Writer)
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depending, encounters, entrusting, entrusts, relatives, unfortunates
«Separation from the wife, disgrace from one's own people, an enemy saved in battle, service to a wicked king, poverty, and a mismanaged assembly: these six kinds of evils, if afflicting a person, burn him even without fire.»
«Generosity, pleasing address, courage and propriety of conduct are not acquired, but are inbred qualities.»
«He whose hands are clean does not like to hold an office; he who desires nothing cares not for bodily decorations; he who is only partially educated cannot speak agreeably; and he who speaks out plainly cannot be a deceiver.»
Author: Chanakya
(Politician, strategist, Writer)
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cares, cleanest, deceivers, decorations, desires, speaks
«Kings speak for once, men of learning once, and the daughter is given in marriage once. All these things happen once and only once.»
«I do not deserve that wealth which is to be attained by enduring much suffering, or by transgressing the rules of virtue, or by flattering an enemy.»
«Brass is polished by ashes; copper is cleaned by tamarind; a woman, by her menses; and a river by its flow.»
Author: Chanakya
(Politician, strategist, Writer)
| Keywords:
ashes, coppers, flowed, polishes, tamarinds