Top 38 Quotes by Chanakya

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

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.

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.

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.

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.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

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 whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.