[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975) › c8.1760 # Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c8.1760 Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c8.1760 - **Language:** English ### [c8.1760](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8.1760) The brother was not moved by this philosophy of Damanaka and so he said again, “Anywhere and in any venture success is difficult to achieve and failure is very easy. It is difficult to rise up but it is easy to fall down. It is a very hard labour to roll a stone up a mountain but to push it down from the top is very easy. He is blessed who can read correctly the thoughts of other people. I have, looking at the face of our King, understood that something big is worrying him.” - [Previous: c8.1759](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8.1759) - [Next: c8.1761](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8.1761) - [Up: c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8.1760](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8.1760) · Pramāṇa