Master your words. Master your thoughts. Never allow your body to do harm. Follow these three roads with purity And you will find yourself upon the one way, The way of wisdom.

Do not give up your authority and follow blindly the will of others. This way will lead to only delusion.

If people become accustomed to lying, they will unconsciously commit every possible wrong deed. Before they can act wickedly, they must lie and once they begin to lie they will act wickedly without concern.

Delight in meditation and solitude. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker.

Whoever has done harmful actions but later covers them up with good is like the moon which, freed from clouds, lights up the world.

Never in the world does hatred cease by hatred; hatred ceases by love.

Cut down the forest, not just a tree. Out of the forest of desire springs danger. By cutting down both the forest of desire and the brushwood of longing, be rid of the forest, bhikkhus.