265 Quotes by Chanakya

Task performed by an unintelligent person should not be rated high.

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?

By means of hearing one understands dharma, malignity vanishes, knowledge is acquired, and liberation from material bondage is gained.

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.

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.

If people of one''s own side have good conduct, it adds power to oneself. The misconduct on the contrary render one powerless. The enemy taks advantage of it. A skilled statesman never allows enemy to win over.

The low minded are fond of deception the nature of low-minded people never changes.

It is better to be without a king than to have a bad one.

No amount of advice change his attitude. He does not listed to good advice. Rather he gets angry.