Quotes by category:Wisdom

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?

healthy wisdom long

When one is consumed by the sorrows of life, three things give him relief: offspring, a wife, and the company of the Lord's devotees.

wife wisdom giving

A learned man is honoured by the people.A learned man commands respect everywhere for his learning. Indeed, learning is honoured everywhere.

wisdom men people

The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman. by Chanakya

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

wisdom beauty world

Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomou... by Chanakya

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

snakes wisdom should

He who has wealth has friends and relations; he alone survives an... by Chanakya

He who has wealth has friends and relations; he alone survives and is respected as a man.

wealth wisdom men

She is a true wife who is clean (suci), expert, chaste, pleasing... by Chanakya

She is a true wife who is clean (suci), expert, chaste, pleasing to the husband, and truthful.

wife husband wisdom

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

wisdom secret wise

There are three gems upon this earth; food, water, and pleasing words - fools (mudhas) consider pieces of rocks as gems.

rocks wisdom water

Do not keep company with a fool for as we can see he is a two-legged beast. Like an unseen thorn he pierces the heart with his sharp words.

wisdom heart two

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?

mirrors wisdom men

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

wisdom happiness friendship

He who forsakes his own community and joins another perishes as the king who embraces an unrighteous path.

community wisdom kings

Learning is like a cow of desire. It, like her, yields in all seasons. Like a mother, it feeds you on your journey. Therefore learning is a hidden treasure.

wisdom journey mother

He who runs away from a fearful calamity, a foreign invasion, a terrible famine, and the companionship of wicked men is safe.

wisdom running men

Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others destroy themselves like serpents that stray onto anthills.

wisdom secret men

The learned are envied by the foolish; rich men by the poor; chaste women by adulteresses; and beautiful ladies by ugly ones.

wisdom beautiful men

As a calf follows its mother among a thousand cows, so the (good... by Chanakya

As a calf follows its mother among a thousand cows, so the (good or bad) deeds of a man follow him.

wisdom mother men

The man who remains a fool even in advanced age is really a fool, just as the Indra-Varuna fruit does not become sweet no matter how ripe it might become.

wisdom sweet men

The cuckoos remain silent for a long time (for several seasons) until they are able to sing sweetly (in the Spring) so as to give joy to all.

wisdom spring long