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 swi…

- Bhartrhari

Idleness is a great enemy to mankind. There is no friend like energy, for, if you cultivate that, it will never fail.

- Bhartrhari

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

- Bhartrhari

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 m…

- Bhartrhari

A good man may fall, but he falls like a ball [and rebounds]; the ignoble man falls like a lump of clay.

- Bhartrhari

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

- Bhartrhari

The constant man loses not his virtue in misfortune. A torch may point towards the ground, but its flame will still point upwards.

- Bhartrhari

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

- Bhartrhari

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…

- Bhartrhari