"The best prophet is common sense, our..." - Quote by Euripides

“The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.”

“Women's love is for their men, not for their children.”

“For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results? It is foolish even to desire it.”

“The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.”

“It is always singular, but encouraging, to meet with common sense in very old books, as the Heetopades of Veeshnoo Sarma; a playful wisdom which has eyes behind as well as before, and oversees itself. It asserts their health and independence of the experience of later times. This pledge of sanity cannot be spared in a book, that it sometimes pleasantly reflect upon itself.”

“not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent, and to justify ourselves in the independent stand we are compelled to take.”

“The tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price.”

“Heaven and Earth last for ever. Why do Heaven and Earth last for ever? They are unborn, so ever living. The sage stays behind, thus he is ahead. He is detached, thus at one with all. Through selfless action, he attains fulfillment.”

“I do not expect old heads on young shoulders.”