SRI AUROBINDO
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Kalidasa
Bhartrihari. The Century of Life
On Fools and Folly
Nay, thou wilt find sweet oil in the sea-sands,
Press them but firmly in thy strenuous hands:
The desert-born mirage shall slake thy thirst,
Or wandering through the earth thou shalt be first
To find the horns of hares, who think’st to school
With reason the prejudgments of the fool.