When an evil-doer, seeing you practise goodness, comes and maliciously insults you, you should patiently endure it and not feel angry with him, for the evil-doer is insulting himself by trying to insult you.
Gautama BuddhaA good friend who points out mistakes is to be respected, as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.
Gautama BuddhaDo not vainly lament, but do wonder at the rule of transiency and learn from it the emptiness of human life. Do not cherish to unworthy desire that the changeable might become unchanging.
Gautama BuddhaIf with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox.
Gautama Buddha