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.

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

A highly learned man has two sources of happiness: either he abandons all earthly interests, or else he possesses much which could be abandoned.

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.

All philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things.

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.

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