Chanakya
Do not keep company with a fool for as we can see he is a two-legged beast. Like an unseen thorn he pierces the heart with his sharp words.Collection: Wisdom
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.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Mean
He who shall practice these twenty virtues shall become invincible in all his undertakings.Collection: Practice
Even a pandit comes to grief by giving instruction to a foolish disciple, by maintaining a wicked wife, and by excessive familiarity with the miserable.Collection: Grief
A wise man should not divulge the formula of a medicine which he has well prepared; an act of charity which he has performed; domestic conflicts; private affairs with his wife; poorly prepared food he may have been offered; or slang he may have heard.Collection: Wise
By means of hearing one understands dharma, malignity vanishes, knowledge is acquired, and liberation from material bondage is gained.Collection: Wisdom
Offspring, friends and relatives flee from a devotee of the Lord: yet those who follow him bring merit to their families through their devotion.Collection: Merit
The demerits of our own people bringh infamiy. Their disgrace is our own disgrace. That is why infamy os such people relly hurts . It is desifrable that the ruler or the administrator may work in a way that such disgraceful conduct may not occur.Collection: Hurt
We should not feel pride in our charity, austerity, valour, scriptural knowledge, modestyandmorality for the world is full of the rarest gems.Collection: Wisdom
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.Collection: Strong
The king shall singly deliberate over secret matters; for ministers have their own ministers, and these latter some of their own; this kind of successive line of ministers tends to the disclosure of counsels.Collection: Kings
It is better to live under a tree in a jungle inhabited by tigers and elephants, to maintain oneself in such a place with ripe fruits and spring water, to lie down on grass and to wear the ragged barks of trees than to live amongst one's relations when reduced to poverty.Collection: Spring
The man who is praised by others is regarded as worthy though he may be really void of all merit. But the man who sings his own praises becomes disgraced though he should be Indra, the possessor of all excellencies.Collection: Men
Do not pass between two brahmanas, between a brahmana and his sacrificial fire, between a wife and her husband, a master and his servant, and a plough and an ox.Collection: Husband
He who has wealth has friends.Collection: Wealth
If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?Collection: Men
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.Collection: Wisdom
Even as the unborn babe is in the womb of his mother, these five are fixed as his life destiny: his life span, his activities, his acquisition of wealth and knowledge, and his time of death.Collection: Mother
Education beats the beauty and the youth.Collection: Education
Love or affection towards an individual or nation, is indicated by good action snot merely be words. The adoration towards nation is expressed by works of welfare equally done by the ruler and theruled. The ruler himself must be engatged, in welfare of th country and also should select officials examining their involvement with the public god. Self-centered people greedy of the power should be kept awayCollection: Country
When one is consumed by the sorrows of life, three things give him relief: offspring, a wife, and the company of the Lord's devotees.Collection: Wisdom
The Goddess of wealth is unsteady, and so is the life breath. The duration of life is uncertain, and the place of habitation is uncertain; but in all this inconsistent world religious merit alone is immovable.Collection: Religious
The foolish wish to speak out what was spoken in secret by the master.Collection: Speaks Out
An egoist can be won over by being respected, a crazy person can be won over by allowing him to behave in an insane manner and a wise person can be won over by truth.Collection: Wise
Wealth, a friend, a wife, and a kingdom may be regained; but this body when lost may never be acquired again.Collection: Wisdom
Union in privacy (with one's wife); boldness; storing away useful items; watchfulness; and not easily trusting others; these five things are to be learned from a crow.Collection: Wife
The learned are envied by the foolish; rich men by the poor; chaste women by adulteresses; and beautiful ladies by ugly ones.Collection: Beautiful
If one limb of the body is defected or inflicted with, disease, the whole feels tha pai. Some way if any department, minister or official of the state is faulty, the whole country is effected. An administrator should try hard to curb it.Collection: Country
Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others destroy themselves like serpents that stray onto anthills.Collection: Wisdom
A low-minded person should not be given good advice.Collection: Advice
He who gives up shyness in monetary dealings, in acquiring knowledge, in eating and in business, becomes happy.Collection: Wisdom
He who runs away from a fearful calamity, a foreign invasion, a terrible famine, and the companionship of wicked men is safe.Collection: Running
He shall despise none, but hear the opinions of all. A wise man shall make use of even a child's sensible utterance.Collection: Wise
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?Collection: Eagles
He who has wealth has friends and relations; he alone survives and is respected as a man.Collection: Wisdom
He who look at a woman who is not his wife as a mother; wealth that is not his as dust and all the men as himself... is a happy man. He, who sees all these things under a different light, is a blind.Collection: Mother
The man who remains a fool even in advanced age is really a fool, just as the Indra-Varuna fruit does not become sweet no matter how ripe it might become.Collection: Wisdom
The fire of the forest burns trees to ashes. Even expensive sandalwood tree which is endowed with qualities of cooling and fragrance, cannot escape from burning. In the same way wicked cause harm to their benefactors also.Collection: Fire
Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear.Collection: Ignorance
A permanent relationship is dependent on particular purpose or wealth.Collection: Inspirational
How well u treat the wicked people, they do nto give up their wickedness. They derive pleasure in hurting others. A serpent made to drink milk, it ejects poison only.Collection: Hurt
Knower of the means makes impossible tasks also possible.Collection: Inspirational
One destitute of wealth is not destitute, he is indeed rich, but the man devoid of learning is destitute in every way.Collection: Learning
A father who is a chronic debtor, an adulterous mother, a beautiful wife, and an unlearned son are enemies in one's own home.Collection: Beautiful
Time perfects all living beings as well as kills them; it alone is awake when all others are asleep. Time is insurmountable.Collection: Wisdom
If a king is energetic, his subjects will be equally energetic.Collection: Kings
Love is indicated by deeds (and not by words)Collection: Love Is
Time perfects men as well as destroys them.Collection: Time