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          SOME HINDU PROVERBS
What is Dharma? Kindness. What is Happiness? Being free from disease. What is friendship? Being good to others. What is Learning? The ability to discriminate.


Eat fire and your mouth burn ; live on credit and your pride will burn.


Each man is the sole guardian of his own honor.


Life is river; virture is its bathing place; truth is its water; moral convictions are its banks; mercy is its wave. In such a pure river, bathe.


The mind of man is the root of both bondage and release.


Speak like a parrot; meditate like a swan; chew like a goat; and bathe like an elephant.


Debt, a sore, and a stain will be affected by time.


Superiority does not follow from age but from virtue.


The desires of the poor spring up just to be destroyed.


When a liberal man gives, his stewad's heart breaks.


A fly, a harlot, a beggar, a rat, and gusty wind; the village-boss and the tax collector - these seven are always annoying to others.


Nobody with eyes open dares swallow a fly.