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"O curas hominum! O quantum est in rebus inane!"
"Homini amico et familiari non est mentiri meum."
"Secuit Lucilius urbem, te Lupe, te Muci, et genuinum fregit in illis; omne vafer vitium ridenti Flaccus amico tangit et admissus circum praecordia ludit, callidus excusso populum suspendere naso."
"Vivite lurcones, comedones, vivite ventris!"
"Publicanus vero ut Asiae fiam, ut scripturarius pro Lucilio, id ego nolo et uno hoc non muto omnia."
"Cupiditas ex homine cupido ex stulto numquam tollitur."
"Ut Romanus populus victus vei, superatus proeliis saepe est multis, bello vero numquam, in quo sunt omnia."
"Ense velut stricto quotiens Lucilius ardens infremuit, rubet auditor cui frigida mens est criminibus, tacita sudant praecordia culpa."
"Aurum vis hominemne? Habeas. "Hominem? quid ad aurum?""
"Hunc laborem sumas laudem qui tibi ac fructum ferat."
"Paulo hoc melius quam mediocre, hoc minus malum quam ut pessumum."
"Accipiunt leges, populus quibus legibus exlex."
"Nunc vero a mani ad noctem festo atque profesto totus item pariterque die populusque patresque iactare indu foro se omnes, decedere nusquam; uni se atque eidem studio omnes dedere et arti— verba dare ut caute possint, pugnare dolose, blanditia certare, bonum simulare virum se, insidias facere ut si hostes sint omnibus omnes."
"Quo fit ut omnis Votiva pateat veluti descripta tabella Vita senis."
"Ut pueri infantes credunt signa omnia aena vivere et esse homines, sic isti somnia ficta vera putant, credunt signis cor inesse in aenis. Pergula pictorum, veri nil, omnia ficta."
"Cum lux altera venit, iam cras hesternum consumpsimus; ecce aliud cras egerit hos annos et semper paulum erit ultra."
"Nostrum est quod vivis, cinis et manes et fabula fies. vive memor leti, fugit hora."
"Ut nemo in sese tentat descendere! nemo! Sed praecedenti spectatur mantica tergo."
"Usque adeone scire tuum nihil est, nisi te scire hoc sciat alter?"
"She knows her man, and when you rant and swear, Can draw you to her with a single hair."
"Tecum habita: noris quam sit tibi curta supellex."
"Nec nocte paratum, plorabit qui me volet incurvasse querella."
"At pulchrum est digito monstrari et dicier "hic est"."
"Magister artis ingenique largitor venter."
"Quis leget haec?"
"Nec te quaesiveris extra."
"Virtutem videant intabescantque relicta."
"Lasciva est nobis pagina, vita proba."
"Audio Valerium Martialem decessisse et moleste fero. Erat homo ingeniosus acutus acer, et qui plurimum in scribendo et salis haberet et fellis nec candoris minus. ... At non erunt aeterna, quae scripsit; non erunt fortasse, ille tamen scripsit, tamquam essent futura."
"And then what proper person can be partial To all those nauseous epigrams of Martial?"
"Non est, crede mihi, sapientis dicere ‘Vivam’: Sera nimis vita est crastina: vive hodie."
"The greatest of epigrammatists, and the father of the epigram as we understand it."
"Fortuna multis dat nimis, satis nulli."
"Ardua res haec est opibus non tradere mores."
"Difficilis facilis iucundus acerbus es idem: Nec possum tecum vivere nec sine te."
"Accipe quam primum; brevis est occasio lucri."
"Vita non est vivere, sed valera vita est."
"Divisum sic breve fiet opus."
"Barbarian hordes en masse you fuck, Odd types into your bed you tuck, You take on blacks and Asian forces, And Jews, and soldiers, and their horses. Yet you, voracious Roman chick, Have never known a Roman dick."
"Laudas balnea versibus trecentis Cenantis bene Pontici, Sabelle. Vis cenare, Sabelle, non lavari."
"Nobis pereunt et imputantur."
"Si post fata venit gloria, non propero."
"Ampliat aetatis spatium sibi vir bonus. Hoc est Vivere bis vita posse priore frui."
"Neither fear your death's day nor long for it."
"Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil."
"The mode of death is sadder than death itself."
"He who refuses nothing...will soon have nothing to refuse."
"Nullos esse deos, inane caelum Adfirmat Segius: probatque, quod se Factum, dum negat haec, videt beatum."
"I have now gone through the first seven books of Martial, and have learned about 360 of the best lines. His merit seems to me to lie, not in wit, but in the rapid succession of vivid images. I wish he were less nauseous. ... Besides his indecency, his servility and his mendicancy disgust me."
"Semper eris pauper, si pauper es, Aemiliane; Dantur opes nulli nunc, nisi divitibus."
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.