When you know for yourselves, 'These things are wholesome; these things are blameless; these things are praised by the wise; these things, if undertaken and practiced, lead to welfare and happiness,' then you should engage in them.

Like a fine flower, beautiful to look at but without scent, fine words are fruitless in a man who does not act in accordance with them.

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

All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.

Easy to do are things that are bad and harmful to oneself. But exceedingly difficult to do are things that are good and beneficial.

One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble.

Those which are produced from causes are not produced. they do not have an inherent nature of production. those which depend on causes are said to be empty; those who know emptiness are aware.