Akkineni Nagarjuna Quotes

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• So, to praise others for their virtues - Can but encourage one's own efforts
• The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery. The pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel.
• Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will…
• Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
• In peace there is profundity from which the highest respect arises from respect comes power and command therefore observe peace.
• If you desire ease, forsake learning.
• The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of…
• Ultimate serenity is the coming to rest of all ways of taking things, the repose of named things; no truth has been taught by a…
• One who kill, own life will be shortened; One who harms, will be injured even more
• The teachings of elegant sayings Should be collected when one can. For the supreme gift of words of wisdom, Any price will be paid.
• He who does not attempt to make peace / When small discords arise, / Is like the bee's hive which leaks drops of honey /…
• Great compassion penetrates into the marrow of the bone. It is the support of all living beings. Like the love of a parent for an…
• There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires,…
• The Buddha taught some people the teachings of duality that help them avoid sin and acquire spiritual merit. To others he taught non-duality, that some…
• Even offering three hundred bowls of food three times a day does not match the spiritual merit gained in one moment of love.
• All philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things.

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