Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too mad.
The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one.
The venal herd. [Lat. , Venale pecus. ]
Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule.
Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat of his own conscience. [Lat. , Exemplo quodcumque malo committitur, ipsi Displicet auctori. Prima est haec ultio, quod se Judice nemo nocens absolvitur. ]
Our prayers should be for a sound mind in a healthy body. [Lat. , Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano. ]
A rare bird on this earth, like nothing so much as a black swan.
I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.
The Vedas teach that the soul is divine, only held in the bondage of matter; perfection will be reached when this bond will burst, and the word they use for it is, therefore, Mukti - freedom, freedom from the bonds of imperfection, freedom from death and misery.
Discipline your mind to think positively; to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every event.
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.