Chanakya quotes

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Your neighbor is your natural enemy state. The neighbor of your neighbor is your friend.

-Chanakya


Chanakya, The marriage counselor

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

- Chanakya

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

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.

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

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.

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

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.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

(Perhaps in the Indian caste system this is very true)

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

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I was hoping to find quotes not so much about his views on morality, as I don't care about that, but his views of geopolitical strategy he is apparently so famous for...

Anyone have quotes like that from him?