Top 180 Chanakya Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “He who shall practice these twenty virtues shall become invincible in all his undertakings.”

— Chanakya

102. “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

103. “One who is in search of knowledge should give up the search of pleasure and the one who is in search of pleasure should give up the search of knowledge.”

— Chanakya

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

— Chanakya

105. “The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.”

— Chanakya

106. “No one should ever be disrespected.”

— Chanakya

107. “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.”

— Chanakya

108. “Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere.”

— Chanakya

109. “A low-minded person should not be given good advice.”

— Chanakya

110. “The foolish wish to speak out what was spoken in secret by the master.”

— Chanakya

111. “He who wears unclean garments, has dirty teeth, is a glutton, speaks unkindly and sleeps after sunrise – although he may be the greatest personality – will lose the favour of Lakshmi.”

— Chanakya

112. “Moral excellence is an ornament for personal beauty; righteous conduct, for high birth; success for learning; and proper spending for wealth.”

— Chanakya

113. “The king shall lose no time when the opportunity waited for arrives.”

— Chanakya

114. “Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.”

— Chanakya

115. “He who is prepared for the future and he who deals cleverly with any situation that may arise are both happy; but the fatalistic man who wholly depends on luck is ruined.”

— Chanakya

116. “We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.”

— Chanakya

117. “Even a captured enemy is not to be trusted.”

— Chanakya

118. “Fire, even if put on head, burns only.”

— Chanakya

119. “A wicked wife, a false friend, a saucy servant and living in a house with a serpent in it are nothing but death.”

— Chanakya

120. “An evil person causes harm even if treated well.”

— Chanakya

121. “Wealth, a friend, a wife, and a kingdom may be regained; but this body when lost may never be acquired again.”

— Chanakya

122. “All types of riches should be amassed by all means.”

— Chanakya

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

— Chanakya

124. “Women have hunger two-fold, shyness four-fold, daring six-fold, and lust eight-fold as compared to men.”

— Chanakya

125. “A wise man should marry a virgin of a respectable family even if she is deformed. He should not marry one of a low-class family, through beauty. Marriage in a family of equal status is preferable.”

— Chanakya

126. “The low minded are fond of deception; the nature of low-minded people never changes.”

— Chanakya

127. “We should not feel pride in our charity, austerity, valour, scriptural knowledge, modestyandmorality for the world is full of the rarest gems.”

— Chanakya

128. “He shall despise none, but hear the opinions of all. A wise man shall make use of even a child’s sensible utterance.”

— Chanakya

129. “Do not keep company with a fool for as we can see he is a two-legged beast. Like an unseen thorn he pierces the heart with his sharp words.”

— Chanakya

130. “A friend, even if he be the enemy’s son, should be protected.”

— Chanakya

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

— Chanakya

132. “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

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

— Chanakya

134. “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

135. “A wise man should not divulge the formula of a medicine which he has well prepared; an act of charity which he has performed; domestic conflicts; private affairs with his wife; poorly prepared food he may have been offered; or slang he may have heard.”

— Chanakya

136. “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

137. “It is better to be without a king than to have a bad one.”

— Chanakya

138. “The man who remains a fool even in advanced age is really a fool, just as the Indra-Varuna fruit does not become sweet no matter how ripe it might become.”

— Chanakya

139. “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

140. “One destitute of wealth is not destitute, he is indeed rich, but the man devoid of learning is destitute in every way.”

— Chanakya

141. “That man who is without religion and mercy should be rejected. A guru without spiritual knowledge should be rejected. The wife with an offensive face should be given up, and so should relatives who are without affection.”

— Chanakya

142. “Sinfully acquired wealth may remain for ten years; in the eleventh year it disappears with even the original stock.”

— Chanakya

143. “A thing may be dreaded as long as it has not overtaken you.”

— Chanakya

144. “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

145. “Those parents who do not educate their sons are their enemies; for as is a crane among swans, so are ignorant so are ignorant sons in a public assembly.”

— Chanakya

146. “By means of hearing one understands dharma, malignity vanishes, knowledge is acquired, and liberation from material bondage is gained.”

— Chanakya

147. “Save your wealth against future calamity. Do not say, “what fear has a rich man of calamity?” Wealth sometimes vanishes away and large accumulations perish.”

— Chanakya

148. “Low minded people are fraudulent, wicked and chaeat. They shouldnot be trusted. To h ave faith in low minded ones is mistake in policy and useless because they are not trustworthy. An administrator should not invited calamity by trusting the low minded ones.”

— Chanakya

149. “What good can the scriptures do to a man who has no sense of his own? Of what use is as mirror to a blind man?”

— Chanakya

150. “The Goddess of wealth is unsteady, and so is the life breath. The duration of life is uncertain, and the place of habitation is uncertain; but in all this inconsistent world religious merit alone is immovable.”

— Chanakya