Bhartrhari famous quotes

Trees bend low with ripened fruit; clouds hang down with gentle rain; noble people bow graciously. This is the way of generous things.
-- Bhartrhari

#Rain #Clouds #People

I have not wasted life, but life hath wasted me.
-- Bhartrhari

#Life #Wasted Life

Man is but a beast without it: such a glorious god is Learning.
-- Bhartrhari

#Learning #Men #Beast

Neither rings, bright chains, nor bracelets, perfumes, flowers, nor well-trimmed hair, Grace a man like polished language, th' only jewel he should wear.
-- Bhartrhari

#Flower #Men #Hair

Those who possess that treasure which no thief can take away, Which, though on suppliants freely spent, increaseth day by day, The source of inward happiness which shall outlast the earth-- To them e'en kings should yield the palm, and own their higher worth.
-- Bhartrhari

#Happiness #Kings #Yield

Our life is like th' unstable wave, Our bloom of youth decays. Our joys are brief as lightning flash In summer's cloudy days, Our riches fleet as swift as thought; Faith in the One Supreme Alone will bear us o'er the gulfs Of Being's stormy stream.
-- Bhartrhari

#Summer #God #Joy

Fate's sentence written on the brow no hand can e'er efface.
-- Bhartrhari

#Fate #Hands #Brows

The moth unwitting rushes on the fire, Through ignorance the fish devours the bait, We men know well the foes that lie in wait, Yet cannot shun the meshes of desire.
-- Bhartrhari

#Lying #Ignorance #Men

I've wandered over many lands, and reaped withal no fruit, I've laid my pride of rank aside, and pressed my baffled suit, At stranger boards, like shameless crow, I've eaten bitter bread, But fierce Desire, that raging fire, still clamours to be fed.
-- Bhartrhari

#Pride #Fire #Land

Even the severed branch grows again, and the sunken moon returns: wise men who ponder this are not troubled in adversity.
-- Bhartrhari

#Wise #Adversity #Moon

The pearl on my beloved's neck, Afflicted sore the oyster!
-- Bhartrhari

#Sacrifice #Oysters #Pearls

Knowledge is wonderful and truth serene But man in their service bleeds.
-- Bhartrhari

#Knowledge #Men #Wonderful

There is no medicine to cure a fool!
-- Bhartrhari

#Medicine #Fool #Cures

For a moment man is a boy, for a moment a lovesick youth, for a moment bereft of wealth, for a moment in the height of prosperity; then at life's end with limbs worn out by old age and wrinkles adorning his face, like an actor he retires behind the curtain of death.
-- Bhartrhari

#Boys #Men #Wrinkles

Let us keep a firm grip upon our money, for without it the whole assembly of virtues are but as blades of grass.
-- Bhartrhari

#Money #Virtue #Blades

Kindness can turn the bad man's heart, and fools convert to wise, Make poison into nectar-juice, and friends of enemies.
-- Bhartrhari

#Wise #Kindness #Heart

Three courses open lie to wealth, to give, enjoy, or lose, Who shrinketh from the former two, perforce the third doth choose.
-- Bhartrhari

#Lying #Two #Giving