Chanakya

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

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

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.

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?

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life.

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.

Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.