Top 180 Chanakya Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “If the bees which seek the liquid oozing from the head of a lust-intoxicated elephant are driven away by the flapping of his ears, then the elephant has lost only the ornament of his head. The bees are quite happy in the lotus filled lake.”

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

— Chanakya

108. “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

109. “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

110. “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

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

— Chanakya

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

— Chanakya

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

— Chanakya

114. “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

115. “Evil person causes harm even if treated will.”

— Chanakya

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

— Chanakya

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

— Chanakya

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

— Chanakya

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

— Chanakya

120. “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

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

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

— Chanakya

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

— Chanakya

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

— Chanakya

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

— Chanakya

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

— Chanakya

129. “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

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

— Chanakya

131. “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

132. “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

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

— Chanakya

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

— 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. “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

138. “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

139. “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

140. “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

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. “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

143. “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.”

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144. “The man who is praised by others is regarded as worthy though he may be really void of all merit. But the man who sings his own praises becomes disgraced though he should be Indra, the possessor of all excellencies.”

— Chanakya

145. “Defect in one’s limb ruins a man.”

— Chanakya

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

— Chanakya

147. “Sometimes coincidentally an unintelligent person can accomplish a task but that does not mean that he is a knower of means and device or is experienced. A ruler should be careful enough to designate other tasks to such persons.”

— Chanakya

148. “Svanaja includes in itself the whole subject, officials and ministers. If there is something wrong in the conduct of these people, it would be damaging the state. An administrator should strictly deal with it.”

— Chanakya

149. “Even a pandit comes to grief by giving instruction to a foolish disciple, by maintaining a wicked wife, and by excessive familiarity with the miserable.”

— Chanakya

150. “What good is a cow that neither gives milk nor conceives? Similarly, what is the value of the birth of a son if he becomes neither learned nor a pure devotee of the Lord?”

— Chanakya