Chanakya
Chanakya
Chanakya; flourished c. 4th century BCE) was an Indian teacher, philosopher, economist, jurist and royal advisor. He is traditionally identified as Kauṭilya or Vishnu Gupta, who authored the ancient Indian political treatise, the Arthashastra. As such, he is considered the pioneer of the field of political science and economics in India, and his work is thought of as an important precursor to classical economics. His works were lost near the end of the Gupta Empire and not rediscovered until 1915...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionPolitician
CountryIndia
Do not say, What what fear has a rich man of calamity.
He is a pandit (man of knowledge) who speaks what is suitable to the occasion, who renders loving service according to his ability, and who knows the limits of his anger.
He whose son is obedient to him, whose wife's conduct is in accordance with his wishes, and who is content with his riches, has his heaven here on earth.
A debt should be paid off till the last penny; An enemy should be destroyed without a trace
He who befriends a man whose conduct is vicious, whose vision impure, and who is notoriously crooked, is rapidly ruined.
At the time of the pralaya (universal destruction) the oceans are to exceed their limits and seek to change, but a saintly man never changes.
Learning is a friend on the journey; a wife in the house; medicine in sickness; and religious merit is the only friend after death.
The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.
Who realises all the happiness he desires? Everything is in the hands of God. Therefore one should learn contentment.
He who gives up shyness in monetary dealings, in acquiring knowledge, in eating and in business, becomes happy.
The power of a king lies in his mighty arms; that of a brahmana in his spiritual knowledge; and that of a woman in her beauty youth and sweet words.
Swans live wherever there is water, and leave the place where water dries up; let not a man act so - and comes and goes as he pleases.
Accumulated wealth is saved by spending just as incoming fresh water is saved by letting out stagnant water.
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?