222. He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot, him I call a real driver; other people are but holding the reins. - Friedrich Max Müller

The Veda may be called primitive, because there is no other literary document more primitive than it; but the language, the mythology, the religion and philosophy that meet us in the Veda open vistas of the past which no one would venture to measure in years. Nay, they contain, by the side of simple, natural, childish thoughts, many ideas which to us sound modern, or secondary and tertiary, as I called them, but which nevertheless are older than any other literary document, and give us trustworthy information of a period in the history of human thought of which we knew absolutely nothing before the discovery of the Vedas.

Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law. 61. If a traveller does not meet with one who is his better, or his equal, let him firmly keep to his solitary journey; there is no companionship with a fool.

पहला लिखित चमड़ा मरे की पुस्तक थी, जिसे पेरीजेसिस या पीरियोडोस कहा गया था, या यदि सामुद्रिक यात्राओं की बात करें तो ये पेरीप्लस अर्थात मार्गदर्शक पुस्तकें, ये वे किताबें थीं जो यात्रियों को किसी प्रदेश के या शहर के आसपास घुमाती थीं। इन