First Quote Added
April 10, 2026
Latest Quote Added
"Exossatum os esse oportet quem probe percusseris."
"Satin parva res est voluptatum in vita atque in aetate agunda praequam quod molestum est?"
"Ita cuique comparatum est in aetate hominum; ita divis est placitum, voluptatem ut maeror comes consequatur."
"Plus aegri ex abitu viri, quam ex adventu voluptatis cepi."
"Virtus praemium est optimum; virtus omnibus remus anteit profecto: libertas salus vita res et parentes, patria et prognati tutantur, servantur: virtus omnia in sese habet, omnia adsunt bona quem penest virtus."
"Non ego illam mihi dotem duco esse, quae dos dicitur, sed pudicitiam et pudorem et sedatum cupidinem, deum metum, parentum amorem et cognatum concordiam, tibi morigera atque ut munifica sim bonis, prosim probis."
"Nulli est homini perpetuum bonum."
"Nihil agit, qui diffidentem verbis solatus suis. Is est amicus, qui in re dubia te juvat, ubi re est opus."
"You are seeking a knot in a bulrush."
"Feliciter is sapit, qui alieno periculo sapit."
"Hospes nullus tam in amici hospitium divorti potest, quin, ubi triduum continuum fuerit, jam odiosis siet."
"Bibite ! pergraecamini ! Este ! effercite vos !"
"Ego verum amo, verum vol mihi dici : mendacem odi."
"Insperata accidunt magis saepe quam que speres."
"Nihil est miserius, quam animus hominis conscius."
"Each man reaps on his own farm."
"To blow and swallow at the same moment is not easy."
"Te de aliis, quam alios de te suavius est fieri doctos."
"Dictum sapienti sat est."
"Male partum, male disperit."
"Bonus animus in mala re, dimidium est mali."
"Nam multa praeter spem, scio, multis bona evenisse. At ego etiam qui speraverint, spem decepisse multos."
"Animus aequus optimus est aerumnae condimentum."
"[S}i sapias, sapias : habeus quod di dant boni."
"Ut cuique homini res parata est, firmi amici sunt : si res labat, itidem amici collabascunt. Res amicos invenit."
"The face that thou shalt smite in earnest is bound thereafter to be boneless."
"Quod tuum’st, meum’st; omne meum est autem tuum."
"Non aetate, verum ingenio apiscitur sapientia."
"Non optuma haec sunt neque ut ego aequom censeo : verum meliora sunt quam quae deterruma."
"Non tibi illud apparere, si sumas, potest, nisi tu immortale rere esse argentum tibi. Sero atque stulte, prius quod cautum oportuit, postquam comedit rem, post rationem putat."
"Nequam illud verbum‘st, Bene vult, nisi qui bene facit."
"Ne male loquare absenti amico."
"The valiant profit more Their country, than the finest cleverest speakers."
"Pluris est oculatus testis unus, quam auriti decem. Qui audiunt, audita dicunt: qui vident, plane sciunt."
"Cogitato, mus pusillus quam sit sapiens bestia, aetatem qui uni cubili nunquam committit suam : quia si unum ostium obsideatur, aliud perfugium gerit."
"Habeus ut nactus ; nota mala res optima’st."
"[V]irtus praemium est optimum ; virtus omnibus remus anteit profecto : libertas salus vita res et parentes, patria et prognati tutantur, servantur : virtus omnia in sese habet, omnia adsunt bona quem penest virtus."
"Vincite virtute vera."
"Victi vicimus"
"Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem."
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.