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Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

To forget one’s purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

And now, I feel at 85, I really feel that I’m just ready to start.

Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.