Don't indulge in careless behaviour. Don't be the friend of sensual pleasures. He who meditates attentively attains abundant joy.

If you find someone with wisdom, good judgment, and good actions; make him a companion.

As solid rock remains unmoved by the wind, so the wise remain unmoved by blame and praise.

When your mind is set in meditative equipoise, you can see reality exactly as it is

Fools wait for a lucky day, but everyday is a lucky day for an industrious man.

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Those who recognize the existence of suffering, its cause, its remedy, and its cessation, have fathomed the four noble truths. They will walk in the right path.