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.

True knowledge is a virtue of the talented, but harmful to those without discernment. Spring water free of impurity, entering the ocean, becomes undrinkable.

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 misery.

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.

Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.

The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery. The pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel.

So, to praise others for their virtues - Can but encourage one's own efforts