Issue 297
- Garner up pleasant thoughts in your mind,
for pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives.
- What is a grain? It is the companionship of the virtuous.
What is grief? It is the company of fools.
What is loss? It is the dissipation of time.
What is prudence? It is devotion to virtue.
What is valour? It is the conquest of the senses.
Who is the beloved wife? One who is devoted to her husband.
What is wealth? It is knowledge.
What is happiness? It is to remain settled in one's own country.
What is rulership? It is to command obedience
- If spring came but once a century instead of once a year,
or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake and not in silence,
what wonder and expectation there would
be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change.
- When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way,
you will command the attention of the world.
- Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first,
of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.
- Nothing of any importance can be taught.
It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.
- It is said that when the world ends, even the moutains start moving
due to the force of the wind.
But even when such a thing happens, the mental state of the brave
does not waver since it is very clear.
Clarity in thoughts gives you the strength to withstand anything.
- The way to build a nation is to build a good citizen.
The majority of the citizens should be efficient,
of good character and possess a reasonable high sense of duty.
- Put this restriction on your pleasures;
be cautious that they injure no being that lives.