Monday, May 23, 2005
Quotes of the Day #88
He who praises you for what you lack wishes to take from you what you have.
-- Don Juan Manuel
A tree may yield you shade, fruit and blooms; in return for this service you should not try to uproot it and carry it off. Acquisitiveness makes you clutch at a thing that pleased you and drives you to fight for it, just as you would fight for a thing that stirred your ill will.
-- Quoting Sage Vasishta from "Gods, Demons and Others" by R K Narayan
Our envy of others devours us most of all.
-- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
