Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

It is better to travel well then arrive.

Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.

Be quick to do good. If you are slow, the mind, delighting in mischief, will catch you.

The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world.

Monks, one thing, if practiced and made much of, conduces to great thrill, great profit, great security after the toil, to mindfulness and self-possession, to the winning of knowledge and insight, to pleasant living in this very life, to the realization of the fruit of release by knowledge. What is that one thing: It is mindfulness centered on the body.

The fool thinks he has won a battle when he bullies with harsh speech, but knowing how to be forbearing alone makes one victorious.