"Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness."
― Chanakya
Topic(s):
Friendship
― Chanakya
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- "The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there."
- "There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth."
- "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."
More In Friendship
- "Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."― Albert Camus
- "Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I’d probably choose success."― Sting
- "I’ve got some great guy friends. They can start out as crushes. But when you realize something isn’t going to happen, you make a choice whether or not the friendship is worth it. And it usually is. Then you can laugh about the fact that you used to have a crush on him or he had one on you."― Courteney Cox