One who, while seeking happiness, oppresses with violence other living beings who also desire happinesss, will not find happiness hereafter.

Not by mere eloquence, nor by handsome appearance, does a man become good-natured, should he be jealous, selfish and deceitful.

Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.

You must take action yourself, for Buddhas only teach the way.

Through vigilance, restraint and control the wise will construct and island that no flood will overcome.

Meat is not agreeable to the wise: it has a nauseating odor, it causes a bad reputation, it is food for the carnivorous; I say this, Mahamati, it is not to be eaten.

Without approval and without scorn, but carefully studying the sentences word by word, one should trace them in the Discourses and verify them by the Discipline. If they are neither traceable in the Discourses nor verifiable by the Discipline, one must conclude thus: 'Certainly, this is not the Blessed One's utterance; this has been misunderstood by that bhikkhu - or by that community, or by those elders, or by that elder.' In that way, bhikkhus, you should reject it.