Chanakya 15 sayings

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

2. "As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it."

3. "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."

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

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

6. "God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple."

7. "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."

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

9. "Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune."

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

11. "The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions."

12. "The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman."

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

14. "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."

15. "When we start working on something, a plan is essential. But, in the end, we should not become the slave of the plan.

Above is Chanakya 15 sayings.