Chanakya Quotes on Charity (10 Quotes)

Oil on water, a secret communicated to a base man, a gift given to a worthy receiver, and scriptural instruction given to an intelligent man spread out by virtue of their nature.

A wise man should not divulge the formula of a medicine which he has well prepared an act of charity which he has performed domestic conflicts private affairs with his wife poorly prepared food he may have been offered or slang he may have heard.

Wise men should never go into a country where there are no means of earning one's livelihood, where the people have no dread of anybody, have no sense of shame, no intelligence, or a charitable disposition.

A woman does not become holy by offering by charity, by observing hundreds of fasts, or by sipping sacred water, as by sipping the water used to wash her husbands feet.

O jackal, leave aside the body of that man at once, whose hands have never given in charity, whose ears have not heard the voice of learning, whose eyes have not beheld a pure devotee of the Lord, whose feet have never traversed to holy places, whose belly is filled with things obtained by crooked practices, and whose head is held high in vanity. Do not eat it, O jackal, otherwise you will become polluted.

Charity puts and end to poverty righteous conduct to misery discretion to ignorance and scrutiny to fear.

Let not a single day pass without your learning a verse, half a verse, or a fourth of it, or even one letter of it nor without attending to charity, study and other pious activity.

Generosity, pleasing address, courage and propriety of conduct are not acquired, but are inbred qualities.

Rain which falls upon the sea is useless so is food for one who is satiated in vain is a gift for one who is wealthy and a burning lamp during the daytime is useless.

Those who are destitute of learning, penance, knowledge, good disposition, virtue and benevolence are brutes wandering the earth in the form of men. They are burdensome to the earth.