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- Test a servant while in discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity and a wife in misfortune.
- 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.
- Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
- 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.
- One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor his wealth when the need for them arises.
- The biggest Guru Mantra is- Never share your thoughts with anybody. It will destroy you.
- Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions- Why am I doing it? What the result might be? and Will I be successful?. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions go ahead!
- A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first!
- There is some self interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self interests. This is a bitter truth!
- As soon as the fear approaches, attack and destroy it.
- Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
- Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is to a blind person.
- The earth is supported by the power of truth. It is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow. Indeed all things rest upon truth.
- A man is great by deeds not by birth.
- Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.
These are my favorite 15 quotes by Chanakya, one of the most wisest man that has ever been born in the history of India.
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