People are so selfish. Those you help are the ones who turn against you.
MUNSHI PREMCHANDBoys are quite often whimsical. Whereas girls are modest by nature and know their responsibilities very well. Their weapons are service, sacrifice, and love, by which they conquer over the males.
More Munshi Premchand Quotes
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The world assumes that we are very happy with high mansions, fine carriages, servants and attendants, huge investments, and concubines. But he who is without the honor and strength of the soul can be anything but happy.
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If brothers don’t help each other in times of need, how do you think life will ever go on?
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If someone ensures us two square meals a day, we will sing and pray all our waking hours. If one has to hoe sugarcane all day, devotion to God vanishes like smoke.
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We think these big people are very happy, but the truth is they are worse than us. We are just worried about one thing – hunger; they have a thousand worries.
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We all have to die some day. Not very many immortals have shown up in this world.
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A household can never appear prosperous without a cow. How auspicious it is to wake up in the morning to the mooing of your own cow!
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My life is simple and rough.
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Parents are one’s companions in life but not partakers of one’s karma.
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I believe that if man and woman cherish the same ideals and think alike, then the marriage can be complementary to each other’s work instead of being a hindrance.
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Like timidity, bravery is also contagious.
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Wealth and compassion are opposites.
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Beauty doesn’t need ornaments. Softness can’t bear the weight of ornaments.
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The first condition of marriage between a man and a woman is that both must belong to each other totally.
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Secrets of the past! Who does not wish to keep the past locked in a cage like a ferocious beast? The rich are sleepless for fear of thieves. The respectable have to guard their reputations in the same way.
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I will not call that person happy who knows no rest because of his enemies, who is the butt of fun by all and for whom no one has any empathy, who is as if held on a leash by others, who has lost himself in hedonistic pursuits, who preys on those weaker to him and wags his tail for his superiors.
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