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Mahabharata Quotes
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"TWith gentleness one defeats the gentle as well as the hard; there is nothing impossible to the gentle; therefore the gentle is the more severe."
"Fear is a strong instinctive feeling, though it can be overcome by will-power or strong motives like love, shame or hate, or more usually, by discipline. Even men who have afterwards distinguished themselves by heroic deeds have confessed to having felt something like panic fear, the first time they came under fire."
"Whatever is here, is found elsewhere. But what is not here, is nowhere else."
"Peace comes from within. When one conquers his inner enemies, peace will come automatically."
"Fear is a strong instinctive feeling, though it can be overcome by will-power or strong motives like love, shame or hate, or more usually, by discipline. Even men who have afterwards distinguished themselves by heroic deeds have confessed to having felt something like panic fear, the first time they came under fire."
"The intoxication with power is worse than drunkeness with liquor and such, for who is drunk with power does not come to his senses before he falls."
"There are many evils in battle: the first and the foremost is slaughter. Victory is always uncertain. It depends on chance. Even those that obtain victory have to suffer losses."
"Men of immature understanding begin an act without having an eye to what may happen in future"
"Senses out of control suffice to bring one to grief, as untrained and disobedient horses bring a driver to grief on the road. A fool who, guided by his senses, sees profit arising from the unprofitable and the unprofitable from profit mistakes misery for happiness."
"For one who is born, death is certain; and for one who dies, birth is certain. Therefore, you should not lament over the inevitable."
"It is by their own actions, good or bad, that men are happy or miserable. The virtues or vices of others will not affect us in the least."