To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.

More than those who hate you, more than all your enemies, an undisciplined mind does greater harm.

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.

Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth.

Letting go of our suffering is the hardest work we will ever do.

If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox.

Rid of craving and without clinging, an expert in the study of texts, and understanding the right sequence of the words, he may indeed be called "In his last body", "Great in wisdom" and a "Great man."