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Mahabharata Quotes
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"There are two forces: fate and human effort - All men depend on and are bound by these, there is nothing else."
"Nobody is nobody’s friend, nobody is nobody’s wellwisher, persons become friends or enemies only from motives of interest."
"Once war has been undertaken, no peace is made by pretending there is no war."
"Twice blessed be the man that reflects long before he acts. One that reflects long before he acts is certainly possessed of great intelligence. Such a man never offends in respect of any act."
"Be steadfast in yoga, O Arjuna. Perform your duty and abandon all attachments to success or failure. Such evenness of mind is called yoga."
"When the Gods deal defeat to a person, they first take his mind away, so that he sees things wrongly."
"A gray head does not make an elder. The Gods know him to be an elder who knows, be he a child. Not by years, not by gray hairs, not by riches or many relations did the seers make the Law: He is great to us who has learning."
"All this has Time for its root. Time, is indeed the seed of the universe, O Dhanajaya. It is time again, that withdraws everything at its pleasure."
"It is true that one should know the difference between good and evil, if one is to seek good and shun evil, but this knowledge should soak into every thought and influence every act in one’s life. Then indeed knowledge becomes virtue."
"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."