No one can escape death and unhappiness. If people expect only happiness in life, they will be disappointed.

The greatest impurity is ignorance. Free yourself from it. Be pure.

To abstain from lying is essentially wholesome.

In four ways ... should one who flatters be understood as a foe in the guise of a friend: He approves of his friend's evil deeds, he disapproves his friend's good deeds, he praises him in his presence, he speaks ill of him in his absence.

He who never thinks of anything as 'mine' does not feel the lack of anything: he is never worried by a sense of loss.

What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: our life is the creation of our mind. If a man speaks or acts with an impure mind, suffering will follow him as the wheel of the cart follows the beast that draws the cart. If a man speaks or acts with a pure mind, joy follows him as his own shadow.

He whose longing has been aroused for the indescribable, whose mind has been quickened by it, and whose thought is not attached to sensuality is truly called one who is bound upstream.