One should strive to understand what underlies sufferings and diseases - and aim for health and well-being while gaining in the Path.

Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.

I do not perceive even one other thing, O monks, that when undeveloped and uncultivated entails such great suffering as the mind. The mind when undeveloped and uncultivated entails great suffering.

O seeker! Rely on nothing until you want nothing.

Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Pain is the outcome of sin.

The wise say that it is not an iron, wooden or fiber fetter which is a strong one, but the besotted hankering after trinkets, children and wives, that, say the wise, is the strong fetter. It drags one down, and loose as it feels, it is hard to break. Breaking this fetter, people renounce the world, free from longing and abandoning sensuality.