We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it?

The Beautiful chariots of kings wear out, This body too undergoes decay. But the Dhamma of the good does not decay: So the good proclaim along with the good.

There are friendships to one who lives in society; thus our present grief arises from having friendships; observing the evils resulting from friendship, let one walk alone like a rhinoceros.

The mind precedes all things, the mind dominates all things, the mind creates all things.

Pain in life is inevitable but suffering is not.

Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true.

One should follow a man of wisdom who rebukes one for one's faults, as one would follow a guide to some buried treasure. To one who follows such a wise man, it will be an advantage and not a disadvantage.