A fool acquires knowledge only to his own disadvantage. It destroys what good he has, and turns his brains. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Like fresh milk a bad deed does not turn at once. It follows a fool scorching him like a smouldering fire. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Being generous and kindly in speech, doing a good turn for others, and treating all alike. One like this will be praised. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
A wrong action may not bring its reaction at once, even as fresh milk turns not sour at once: like a smouldering… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Turn away from mischief. Again and again, turn away. Before sorrow befalls you. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Surely if living creatures saw the results of all their evil deeds, they would turn away from them in disgust. But selfhood… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Be quick to do good. If you are slow, The mind, delighting in mischief, Will catch you. Turn away from mischief. Again… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Before you've seen it, and when you first see it, it is the greatest thing; afterwards, it is ordinary. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
One of his students asked Buddha, "Are you the Messiah?" "No," answered Buddha. "Then are you a healer?" "No," Buddha replied. "Then are you… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Give thanks for what had been given to you, However little. Be pure, never falter. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Be lamps unto yourselves. Be refuges unto yourselves. Take yourself no external refuge. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp. Hold fast to… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
It is because I perceive the danger in the practice of mystic wonders, that I loath, abhor, and am ashamed thereof. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If one is the master of oneself, one is the resort one can depend on; therefore, one should control oneself of all. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Watch the thought and its ways with care, and let it spring from love born out of concern for all beings. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
One is not low because of birth nor does birth make one holy. Deeds alone make one low, deeds alone make one holy. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
