Quotes Of Chanakya

1.    "A person should not be too honest.
Straight trees are cut first
And Honest people are screwed first."

2.    "Even if a snake is not poisonous,
It should pretend to be venomous."

3.    "The biggest guru-mantra is: Never share your secrets with anybody.
If you cannot keep secret with you , do not expect that other will keep it!
It will destroy you."

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

5.    "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."

6.    "As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it."

7.    "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."

8.    "The fragrance of flowers spreads
Only in the direction of the wind.
But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction."

9.    "A man is great by deeds, not by birth."

10. "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."

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

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

13.  We should always deal cautiously with fire, water, women, foolish people, serpents, and members of a royal family; for they may, when the occasion presents itself, at once bring about our death.

14. Do not put your trust in rivers, men who carry weapons, beasts with claws or horns, women, and members of a royal family.