Be lamps unto yourselves. Be refuges unto yourselves. Take yourself no external refuge. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp. Hold fast to the truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone besides yourselves. And those, Ananda, who either now or after I am dead, Shall be a lamp unto themselves, Shall betake themselves as no external refuge, But holding fast to the truth as their lamp, Holding fast to the truth as their refuge, Shall not look for refuge to anyone else besides themselves, It is they who shall reach to the very topmost height; But they must be anxious to learn.

When one is overcome by this wretched, clinging desire in the world, one's sorrows increase like grass growing up after a lot of rain.

Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everythiong else.

It is better to do nothing Than to do what is wrong. For whatever you do, you do to yourself.

Never tell a lie. Anyone who can tell you the slightest of lies is also capable of any evil.

Winning gives birth to hostility Losing, one lies down in pain. The calmed lie down with ease, having set winning and losing aside.

All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.