The best Quotes by Chanakya

The best Quotes by Chanakya

Chanakya (375–283 BCE) was an ancient Indian polymath who was active as a teacher, author, strategist, philosopher, economist, jurist, and royal advisor.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
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The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

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A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.
Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones - Season 1 Episode 2
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"One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us."
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If you have never spent whole afternoons with burning ears and rumpled hair, forgetting the world around you over a book, forgetting cold and hunger-

If you have never read secretly under the bedclothes with a flashlight, because your father or mother or some other well-meaning person has switched off the lamp on the plausible ground that it was time to sleep because you had to get up so early-

If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful story has come to an end and you must take your leave of the characters with whom you have shared so many adventures, whom you have loved and admired, for whom you have hoped and feared, and without whose company life seems empty and meaningless-

If such things have not been part of your own experience, you probably won't understand what Bastian did next.
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I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.
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If you don't like to read you haven't found the right book.
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Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.
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Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart.
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Who's the more foolish? The fool or the fool who follows him?
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I fear the day when the technology overlaps with our humanity. The world will only have a generation of idiots.
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The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.
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The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
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That's the misery: Stupid people are so confident, the wise ones full of doubt.
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Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
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Brom: "Because you can't argue with all of the fools in the world."
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I'm Starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.
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The past is like a broken mirror, as you piece it together you cut yourself. Your image keeps shifting and you change with it.
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Who can gaze into the mirror without becoming evil? The mirror does not reflect evil, but creates it.
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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.
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Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
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The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.
Gary: "Even your Pikachu feels sorry for you, Ash. I've never seen anyone so pathetic."
Misty: "Have you tried a mirror?"
You should never trust a woman who just had her heart broken. We tend to lie.
Bree Van De Kamp in Desperate Housewives - Season 1 Episode 12
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When a woman quits on a man, she either got enough of him or she didn't get enough from him.
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A jealous female can be tricked into everything.
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A woman can be gorgeous at 19, charmimg at 29, but only at 39 she is irresistible for the rest of her life. And no woman that has been irresistible, ever turns older than 39.
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The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves. But for those who haven't had the fortune of finding this happiness, I am there.
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Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they need to run free, until they find someone just as wild to run with.
Carrie Bradshaw in Sex And The City - Season 2 Episode 18
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When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.
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Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.
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I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
Psalms - 139,14
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One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
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The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
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We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
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Don't worry, it takes more than an infection to prevent a baby from being born healthy.
Moskow in Money Heist - Season 1 Episode 6
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Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.
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Anything is possible if you got enough nerve.
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To me, the very definition of the word "broken" suggests that something can be fixed.
Elijah Mikaelson in The Originals - Season 1 Episode 8
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Sometimes the right path is not the easiest one.
Grandmother Willow in Pocahontas
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Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
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How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
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There is no such thing as bad ideas. Just poorly executed awesome ideas.
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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
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One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. The other one is me.
Joe Biden - März 2024
What do you call an Asian Dwayne Johnson?
The Wok.
I'm paranoid. On my stationary bike, I have a rear view mirror.
When you're in love it's the most glorious two and a half days of your life.

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