With his mind free from the inflow of thoughts and from restlessness, by abandoning both good and evil, an alert man knows no fear.

An unreflective mind is a poor roof. Passion, like the rain, floods the house. But if the roof is strong, there is shelter. Whoever follows impure thoughts Suffers in this world and the next. In both worlds he suffers And how greatly.

The darkest night is ignorance.

The shallow is easy to embrace, but the profound is difficult. To discard the shallow and seek the profound is the way of a person of courage.

You have to do your own work; Enlightened Ones will only show the way. Those who practise meditation will free themselves from the chains of death

He who lives with his senses well controlled, moderate in his food and drink, he will not be overthrown, any more than the wind throws down a rocky mountain.

If we destroy something around us we destroy ourselves. If we cheat another, we cheat ourselves.