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.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Learn this from water: loud splashes the brook but the oceans depth are calm.

If one man kills a hundred men, and another man masters himself, the second man is the much greater warrior.

Believe nothing because it is written in books. Believe nothing because wise men say it is so. Believe nothing because it is religious doctrine. Believe it only because you yourself know it to be true.

When wishes are few, the heart is happy. When craving ends, there is peace.

Let us live in joy, never falling sick like those who hate us. Let us live in freedom, without hatred even among those who hate.