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

Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher.

You yourself must strive. The Buddhas only point the way.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

Wakefulness is the way to life. The fool sleeps As if he were already dead, But the master is awake And he lives forever.

He who wrongs the innocent must bear the fruit of his act, like dust flung against the wind.

There are friendships to one who lives in society; thus our present grief arises from having friendships; observing the evils resulting from friendship, let one walk alone like a rhinoceros.