265 Quotes by Chanakya

He who runs away from a fearful calamity, a foreign invasion, a terrible famine, and the companionship of wicked men is safe.

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.

Learning is like a cow of desire. It, like her, yields in all seasons. Like a mother, it feeds you on your journey. Therefore learning is a hidden treasure.

Learning is a friend on the journey; a wife in the house; medicine in sickness; and religious merit is the only friend after death.

He who forsakes his own community and joins another perishes as the king who embraces an unrighteous path.

The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.

Who realises all the happiness he desires? Everything is in the hands of God. Therefore one should learn contentment.

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.

He who gives up shyness in monetary dealings, in acquiring knowledge, in eating and in business, becomes happy.