Indian Proverb Quotes

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• These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.
• For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.
• Don't judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.
• Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.
• Conquer a man who never gives by gifts; Subdue untruthful men by truthfulness; Vanquish an angry man by gentleness; And overcome the evil man by…
• Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.
• Great anger is more destructive than the sword
• It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all.
• Fate and self-help share equally in shaping our destiny
• Life is not a continuum of pleasant choices, but of inevitable problems that call for strength, determination, and hard work
• Agriculture is best, enterprise is acceptable, but avoid being on a fixed wage.
• A person who misses a chance and the monkey who misses its branch can't be saved
• Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf
• Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.
• The pain is sometimes preferable to the treatment

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