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What is the use of eating a meal which causes a stomach ache?
If delayed, hopes turn into disappointment,
How we destroy the happiness and tranquility of our lives through momentary embarrassment and allurements!
There is a state of the mind when the eyes are open and see nothing, and when the ears are intent and hear nothing.
the country which has more independent woman, the more civilised that country is. To keep women prisoners, or in purdah, or miles away from menfolk means that in our country the general public is so depraved, that it doesn’t hesitate at all to insult women.
A healthy man does not worry about what, how much and when he eats, but when he gets sick he remembers that he had eaten pakoris yesterday. Victory is an extrovert, defeat, an introvert.
the value of money lay in its power to give pleasure.
How peacefully the greatest event of human life takes place. That immense part of the world, that raging sea of great ambitions, that storehouse of unending efforts, that theatre of love and hate, of joy and sorrow, that battlefield of intelligence and strength – no one knows when or where it vanishes to, no one comes to know.
People were neither virtuous nor vicious from birth; everything depended on circumstances.
