If one limb of the body is defected or inflicted with, disease, the whole feels tha pai. Some way if any department, minister or official of the state is faulty, the whole country is effected. An administrator should try hard to curb it.
Good behavior wins even an enemy.
Time perfects men as well as destroys them.
No amount of advice changes his attitude. He does not listen to good advice. Rather, he gets angry.
A low-minded person should not be given good advice.
Chankaya is referring there to the probibition of entry of the untrustworthy in the counsel-room. Disloyal persons foolishly speak out the secrets of the counsel not knowing the harmful effects of the same. Disclosing the secrets of the counsel mars the welfare of the country.
The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.
In trans-border relations, there are no permanent friends or permanent enemies or even permanent borders. There are only permanent interests and everything should be done to secure these interests.
A person becomes great not by sitting on some high seat, but through higher qualities. A crow does not become an eagle by simply sitting on the top of a palatial building.
Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.
People’s Fury is above all the furies.
For the moon though one, dispels the darkness, which the stars, though numerous, do not.
O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.
Trees on a riverbank, a woman in another man’s house, and kings without counselors go without doubt to swift destruction.
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.
A father who is a chronic debtor, an adulterous mother, a beautiful wife, and an unlearned son are enemies in one’s own home.
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.
He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.
A permanent relationship is dependent on particular purpose or wealth.
It is better to be without a king than to have a bad one.