Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost.

We living beings, right down to crickets, ants, mosquitoes , and flies, all possess life that is without beginning or end.

He who harms living beings is, for that reason, not an ariya (a Noble One); he who does not harm any living being is called an ariya.

In this world Hate never yet dispelled hate. Only love dispels hate. This is the law, Ancient and inexhaustible.

Attention leads to immortality. Carelessness leads to death. Those who pay attention will not die, while the careless are as good as dead already.

To support mother and father, to cherish wife and children, and to be engaged in peaceful occupation - this is the greatest blessing.

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