Just as a tree, though cut down, can grow again and again if its roots are undamaged and strong, in the same way if the roots of craving are not wholly uprooted sorrows will come again and again

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

Your worst enemy is your best teacher.

In four ways ... should one who flatters be understood as a foe in the guise of a friend: He approves of his friend's evil deeds, he disapproves his friend's good deeds, he praises him in his presence, he speaks ill of him in his absence.

How easy it is to see your brother's faults, How hard it is to face your own.

Just as gold is burnt, cut and rubbed, Examine my words carefully and Do not accept them simply out of respect

Of what I know, I have told you only a little. Why have I not told you the rest? Because it would not lead you to Nirvana.