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- Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.
- To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are…
- Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.
- Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.
- To understand everything is to forgive everything.
- To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind.…
- Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk…
- The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.
- There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.
- All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.
- Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
- Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.
- It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
- Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
- The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.
- To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others.
- We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
- A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is…
- The tongue like a sharp knife ... Kills without drawing blood.
- The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
- Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.
- Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.
- Both formerly and now, it is only suffering that I describe, and the cessation of suffering.
- Radiate boundless love towards the entire world - above, below, and across - unhindered, without ill will, without enmity.
- If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current - how can he help others across?
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