An ignorant man ages like an ox. His flesh may increase, but not his understanding.

Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.

It is not life and wealth and power that enslave men, but the cleaving to life and wealth and power.

True and lasting inner peace can never be found in external things. It can only be found within in. And then, once we find and nurture it with ourselves, it radiates outward.

Much though he recites the sacred texts, but acts not accordingly, that heedless man is like a cowherd who only counts the cows of others - he does not partake of the blessings of the holy life.

One should not kill a living being, nor cause it to be killed, nor should one incite another to kill. Do not injure any being, either strong or weak, in the world.

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