Better is to speak unpleasant truth than to tell lies.

Sound health is the greatest of gifts; contentedness, the greatest of riches; trust, the greatest of qualities.

Those who, relying upon themselves only, not looking for assistance to anyone besides themselves, it is they who will reach the top-most height.

The mind is pure and luminous by nature. It is defiled only by adventitious thoughts and emotions

The shallow is easy to embrace, but the profound is difficult. To discard the shallow and seek the profound is the way of a person of courage.

If a man should conquer in battle a thousand and a thousand more, and another should conquer himself, his would be the greater victory, because the greatest of victories is the victory over oneself.

Seeing the similarity to oneself, one should not use violence or have it used.