To utter pleasant words without practicing them, is like a fine flower without fragrance.

Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. The elephant hauls himself from the mud. In the same way drag yourself out of your sloth.

To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

The glorious chariots of kings wear out, and the body wears out and grows old; but the virtue of the good never grows old.

Neither in the sky nor in mid-ocean, nor by entering into mountain clefts, nowhere in the world is there a place where one may escape from the results of evil deeds.

Like a beautiful flower, full of colour, but without scent, are wise words when spoken, but fruitless these words are when not carried out by the speaker.

Better than a long speech is a single quietening word.