Chanakya

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

- Chanakya

"इतना काम करिये की काम भी आप का काम देखकर थक जाय।"

- 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

"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

"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

"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourselves."

- 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 whole-hearted and strenuous effort."

- Chanakya

"The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you."

- Chanakya

"Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher full of poison with milk on top."

- 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

"Anger is a blunt tool. It won’t hurt your enemies. However, It will definitely hurt you."

- 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

"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

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

- Chanakya