A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.

The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task.

If the traveler cannot find master or friend to go with him, let him travel alone rather than with a fool for company.

Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.

Monks, when ignorance is abandoned, and knowledge arises in the monk, with the ending of ignorance and the arising of knowledge he clings neither to sense-pleasures, nor does he cling to views, nor to precepts and vows, nor to a Self-doctrine. Not clinking, he is not disturbed; not disturbed, he attains individually nibbana.

If a man who has committed many a misdemeanor does not repent and cleanse his heart of the evil, retribution will come upon his person as sure as the streams run into the ocean which becomes ever deeper and wider. If a man who has committed a misdemeanor come to the knowledge of it, reform himself, and practise goodness, the force of retribution will gradually exhaust itself as a disease gradually loses its baneful influence when the patient perspires.

The tongue like a sharp knife ... Kills without drawing blood.