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

Like fresh milk a bad deed does not turn at once. It follows a fool scorching him like a smouldering fire.

Meat is not agreeable to the wise: it has a nauseating odor, it causes a bad reputation, it is food for the carnivorous; I say this, Mahamati, it is not to be eaten.

Rid of craving and without clinging, an expert in the study of texts, and understanding the right sequence of the words, he may indeed be called "In his last body", "Great in wisdom" and a "Great man."

All things that are born must die. Work hard for your own freedom from sorrow.

Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth.

Now this, monks, is the noble truth of suffering: birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; union with what is displeasing is suffering; seperation from what is pleasing is suffering... in brief, the five aggregates subject to clinging are suffering.