Sanskrit Proverbs, Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
7 Sanskrit Proverbs
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“A woman's appetite is twice that of a man's; her sexual desire,
four times; her intelligence, eight times.”
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“All we can hold in our cold dead hands is what we have given
away.”
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“He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity
and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows: he
breathes but does not live.”
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“If you forsake a certainty and depend on an uncertainty, you will
lose both the certainty and the uncertainty.”
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“If you gently touch a nettle it'll sting you for your pains;
grasp it like a lad of mettle, an' as soft as silk remains.”
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“Sorrow for the death of a father lasts six months; sorrow for a
mother, a year; sorrow for a wife, until another wife; sorrow for
a son, forever.”
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“Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well
lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every
tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.”
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