Chanakya Tree Quotations

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

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.

Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one's own sins.

The fire of the forest burns trees to ashes. Even expensive sandalwood tree which is endowed with qualities of cooling and fragrance, cannot escape from burning. In the same way wicked cause harm to their benefactors also.

Trees on a riverbank, a woman in another man's house, and kings without counselors go without doubt to swift destruction.

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.

The forest fire burns even tree like sandalwood.

Whores don’t live in company of poor men, citizens never support a weak company and birds don’t build nests on a tree that doesn’t bear fruits.