Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.

Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost.

If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox.

Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everythiong else.

The glorious chariots of kings wear out, and the body wears out and grows old; but the virtue of the good never grows old.

Believe nothing because it is written in books. Believe nothing because wise men say it is so. Believe nothing because it is religious doctrine. Believe it only because you yourself know it to be true.