● A man is great by deeds, not
by birth.
● A person should not be too honest. Just
as straight trees are chopped-down first, honest people are
taken advantage of first.
● A debt should be paid off till the
last penny, and an enemy should be destroyed till last trace.
● A human being should strive for
four things in life — dharma (duty), artha (money), kama
(pleasure) and moksha (salvation). A person who hasn't striven for
even one of these things has wasted life.
● A rich man has many friends.
● A woman is four times as shy, six
times as brave and eight times as lusty as a man.
● An egoist can be won over by being
respected, a crazy person can be won over by allowing him to behave in an
insane manner and a wise person can be won over by truth.
● As soon as the fear approaches
near, attack it and destroy it.
● Avoid him who talks sweetly before you
but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher of poison
with milk on top.
● Before you start any 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.
● Books are as useless to a stupid
person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
● God is not present in idols. Your
feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.
● Even if a snake is not venomous,
it should pretend to be.
● Don't hesitate to learn something even
from the most lowly of creatures.
● In a state where the ruler lives like
a common man, the citizens live like kings. And in the state where the
ruler lives like a king, the citizens live like beggars.
● Jealousy is another name for
failure.
● Never go on a long journey alone.
● There is some self-interest behind
every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a
bitter truth.
- Chanakya (also known as Kautilya or Vishnugupta)(c.350
- c.275 BC) Indian political strategist and writer.
● Passion often renders the most clever
man a fool, and even sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.
● In the human heart there is a perpetual
generation of passions, such that the ruin of one is almost always the
foundation of another.
- François de La Rochefoucauld
● Love truth, but pardon error.
● The secret of being a bore is to tell
everything.
● It is one of the superstitions of the
human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
- Voltaire
● The way for a young man to rise, is to
improve himself every way he can, never suspecting that any body wishes to
hinder him.
● We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the
future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.
● Will springs from the two elements of
moral sense and self-interest.
● Let us discard all this quibbling
about this man and the other man, this race and that race and the other
race being inferior and therefore they must be placed in an inferior
position. Let us discard all these things, and unite as one people
throughout this land, until we shall once more stand up declaring that all
men are created equal.
● Those who deny freedom to others,
deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain
it.
● Neither let us be slandered from our
duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of
destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have
faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare
to do our duty as we understand it.
● I am a slow walker, but I never walk
back.
● That some should be rich, shows that
others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and
enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another;
but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example
assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
- Abraham Lincoln
(12 February 1809 - 15 April 1865) was the 16th President of the
United States and led the country during the American Civil War.
● We all look for happiness, but without
knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their
house, knowing dimly that they have one.
- Voltaire
● The life of the seed will not end once
it falls to the ground. It is but is the beginning of a new
life. Every fall is a new beginning.
- Unknown/Unsourced
● Everything is funny as long as it is happening
to someone else.
- Unknown/Unsourced
● The true Amphitryon
Is the Amphitryon who gives dinner.
- Molière
● John Dalton's records, carefully
preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II
bombing of Manchester.
It is not only the living who are
killed in war.
- Isaac Asimov
● An idealist is a person who helps
other people to be prosperous.
- Henry Ford
● Nothing is as intractable as an untamed
heart.
The untamed heart is intractable.
Nothing is as tractable as a tamed heart.
The tamed heart is tractable.
Nothing tends toward loss as does an untamed heart.
The untamed heart tends towards loss.
Nothing tends toward growth as does a tamed heart.
The tamed heart tends towards growth.
Nothing brings suffering as does
the untamed, uncontrolled unattended and unrestrained heart.
That heart brings suffering.
Nothing brings joy as does a
tamed, controlled, attended and restrained heart.
This heart brings joy.
- Gautama Buddha
● But it is certain that a book is not
harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.
- T. S. Eliot
● Men often hate each other because
they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't
know each other; they don't know each other because they can
not communicate; they can not communicate because they are
separated.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
● If one has no affection for a person or
a system, one should feel free to give the fullest expression
to his disaffection so long as he does not contemplate,
promote, or incite violence.
- Mahatma Gandhi
● History is more or less bunk. It's
tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the
present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is
the history we make today.
- Henry Ford
● It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants
of tomorrow.
(From the fable: The Ant and the Grasshopper)
- Aesop
● A tyrant must put on the appearance of
uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less
apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom
they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other
hand, they do less easily move against him,
believing that he has the gods on his side.
-
Aristotle
● Those who would give up Essential
Liberty
to purchase a little Temporary
Safety,
deserve neither Liberty
nor Safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
● Among the appliances to transform the people,
sound and appearances are but trivial influences.
- Confucius
● I may have had many projects, but I never
was free to carry out any of them...
...Thus I never was truly my own master but was always ruled by
circumstances.
- Napoléon Bonaparte
● Say, ‘This misery that I am suffering is
of my own doing, and that very thing proves that it will have
to be undone by me alone.’ That which I created, I can
demolish; that which is created by someone else, I shall never
be able to destroy. Therefore, stand up, be bold, be strong.
Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know
that you are the creators of your own destiny. All the strength
and succor you want is within ourselves.
- Swami Vivekananda
● I have no doubt that the Romans planned the
time-table of their days far better than we do. They rose
before the sun at all seasons. Except in wartime we never see
the dawn. Sometimes we see sunset. The message of sunset is
sadness; the message of dawn is hope. The rest and the spell of
sleep in the middle of the day refresh the human frame far more
than a long night. We were not made by Nature to work, or even
play, from eight o’clock in the morning till midnight. We throw
a strain upon our system which is unfair and improvident. For
every purpose of business or pleasure, mental or physical, we
ought to break our days and our marches into two.
[Roving Commission: My Early Life (1930)]
- Winston Churchill
● The orators-and the despots-have the least
power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish
to do, practically speaking, though they do whatever they think
to be best.
- Plato
● Concepts that have proven useful in
ordering things easily achieve such authority over us that we
forget their earthly origins and accept them as unalterable
givens.
- Albert Einstein
● I learned very early the difference between
knowing the name of something and knowing something.
- Richard Feynman
● A compliment is like a kiss through a
veil.
- Victor Hugo
● The aim of art is to represent not the
outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
- Aristotle
● To strive with an equal is dangerous;
with a superior, madness; with an inferior, degrading
- Seneca the Elder
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