9 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.2.
All we can hold in our cold dead hands is what we have given away.3.
Dharma, when protected, protects.4.
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.5.
If you forsake a certainty and depend on an uncertainty, you will lose both the certainty and the uncertainty.6.
If you forsake a certainty for an uncertainty, you will lose both the certainty and the uncertainty.7.
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.8.
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.9.
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow is 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.9 Sanskrit Proverbs