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Oneself Quotes by Gautama Buddha
- To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others.
- All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.
- Pay no attention to the faults of others, things done or left undone by others. Consider only what by oneself is done or left undone.
- Purity or impurity depends on oneself, no one can purify another.
- Though thousand times a thousand in battle one may conquer, yet should one conquer just oneself, one is the greatest conqueror.
- In protecting oneself, others are protected; In protecting others, oneself is protected.
- Seeing the similarity to oneself, one should not use violence or have it used.
- Easy to do are things that are bad and harmful to oneself. But exceedingly difficult to do are things that are good and beneficial.
- To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.
- If one is the master of oneself, one is the resort one can depend on; therefore, one should control oneself of all.
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