Chanakya (Sanskrit:चाणक्य Cāṇakya) (c. 350-283 BCE) was an adviser and a prime minister[1] to the first Maurya Emperor Chandragupta(c. 340-293 BCE), and was the chief architect of his rise to power. Kautilya and Vishnugupta, the names by which the ancient Indian political treatise called the Arthaśāstra identifies its author, are traditionally identified with Chanakya.[2] Chanakya has been considered as the pioneer of the field of economics and political science, having first written about the subject a millennium and a half before Ibn Khaldun's Muqaddimah.[3][4][5][6]. In the western world, he has been the referred to as "The Indian Machiavelli", although Chanakya lived 1809 before Machiavelli.[7] Chanakya was a professor at Takshashila University and was responsible for the creation of Mauryan empire, the first of its kind on the Indian subcontinent.
A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases
him like a prostitute in the night.
Chanakya
A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to
hell or the Supreme abode.
Chanakya
A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
Chanakya
A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.
Chanakya
As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.
Chanakya
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?
Chanakya
As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.
Chanakya
Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be
successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.
Chanakya
Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
Chanakya
Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones
are left standing.
Chanakya
Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.
Chanakya
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
Chanakya
Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.
Chanakya
God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.
Chanakya
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.
Chanakya
He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be
nearby.
Chanakya
If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?
Chanakya
It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings
grief every day of one's life.
Chanakya
Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
Chanakya
Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
Chanakya
One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor
wealth when the need for them arises.
Chanakya
Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine
platform.
Chanakya
Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
Chanakya
The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.
Chanakya
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.
Chanakya
The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.
Chanakya
The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons
restlessly moving here and there.
Chanakya
The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of
insects.
Chanakya
The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a wholehearted
and strenuous effort.
Chanakya
The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought
not to be awakened from sleep.
Chanakya
The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and
ability.
Chanakya
The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
Chanakya
There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like
covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.
Chanakya
There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with
it.
Chanakya
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