I will not look at another's bowl intent on finding fault: a training to be observed.

There is, monks, an unborn, unbecome, unmade, unconditioned. If, monks, there were no unborn... no escape would be discerned from what is born, become, made, conditioned. But because there is an unborn..., therefore an escape is discerned from what is born, become, made, conditioned.

The ignorant man is an ox. He grows in size, not in wisdom.

If people become accustomed to lying, they will unconsciously commit every possible wrong deed. Before they can act wickedly, they must lie and once they begin to lie they will act wickedly without concern.

A person is ruined by taking the measure of other persons.

With good will for the entire cosmos, cultivate a limitless heart: above, below, and all around, unobstructed, without hostility or hate.

One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble.