If you endeavor to embrace the Way through much learning, the Way will not be understood. If you observe the Way with simplicity of heart, great indeed is this Way.

A victor only breeds hatred, while a defeated man lives in misery, but a man at peace within lives happily, abandoning up ideas of victory and defeat.

By whomsoever no evil is done in deed, or word, or thought, him I call a Brahmin (holy man) who is guarded in these three.

To live a single day and hear a good teaching is better than to live a hundred years without knowing such teaching.

One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand on the battlefield.

He who, seeking his own happiness, punishes or kills beings who also long for happiness, will not find happiness after his death.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love.