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"Fortune rota volvitur: descendo minoratus; alter in altum tollitur; nimis exaltatus rex sedet in vertice caveat ruinam!"
"O Fortuna, velut luna statu variabilis."
"Sors immanis et inanis, rota tu volubilis, status malus, vana salus semper dissolubilis, obumbrata et velata michi quoque niteris; nunc per ludum dorsum nudum fero tui sceleris."
"Fas et nefas ambulant pene passu pari."
"Hei, quam felix transitus amoris ad soporem, sed suavior regressus ad amorem!"
"Olim lacus colueram, olim pulcher exstiteram, dum cygnus ego fueram. miser! miser! modo niger et ustus fortiter!"
"Respondit Caritas; "homo, quid dubitas, quid me sollicitas? non sum quod usitas nec in euro nec in austro, nec in foro nec in claustro, nec in bysso nec in cuculla, nec in bello nec in bulla. de Iericho sum veniens, ploro cum sauciato, quem duplex Levi transiens non astitit grabato.""
"Tempus est iocundum, o virgines! modo congaudete, vos iuvenes! o! o! totus floreo! Iam amore virginali totus ardeo; novus, novus amor est, quo pereo!"
"Tempore brumali vir patiens, animo vernali lasciviens."
"Potatores exquisiti, licet sitis sine siti, et bibatis expediti et scyphorum inobliti."
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.