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, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.

One who kill, own life will be shortened; One who harms, will be injured even more

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 be slain.

In peace there is profundity from which the highest respect arises from respect comes power and command therefore observe peace.

Because there are no phenomena which are not dependent arisings, there are no phenomena which are not void.

That which arises dependent on something is not in the least that thing, neither is it different from it. Therefore, it is neither permanent or nothing.