Chanakya Quotes on Family (9 Quotes)

Do not put your trust in rivers, men who carry weapons, beasts with claws or horns, women, and members of a royal family.

He who is engrossed in family life will never acquire knowledge there can be no mercy in the eater of flesh the greedy man will not be truthful and purity will not be found in a woman a hunter.

As a whole forest becomes fragrant by the existence of a single tree with sweet-smelling blossoms in it, so a family becomes famous by the birth of a virtuous son.

In this world, whose family is there without blemish Who is free from sickness and grief Who is forever happy

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

A wise man should marry a virgin of a respectable family even if she is deformed. He should not marry one of a low-class family, through beauty. Marriage in a family of equal status is preferable.

Residing in a small village devoid of proper living facilities, serving a person born of a low family, unwholesome food, a frowning wife, a foolish son, and a widowed daughter burn the body without fire.

Therefore kings gather round themselves men of good families, for they never forsake them either at the beginning, the middle or the end.

Give up a member to save a family, a family to save a village, a village to save a country, and the country to save yourself.