By your own folly you will be brought as low as your worst enemy wishes.

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

He who, seeking his own happiness, punishes or kills beings who also long for happiness, will not find happiness after his death.

Men who are addicted to the passions are like the torch-carrier running against the wind; his hands are sure to be burned.

If we fail to look after others when they need help, who will look after us?

Let a man neither give himself over to pleasures ... nor yet let him give himself over to self-mortification ... To the exclusion of both these extremes, the Truth-Finder has discovered a middle course.

Be a lamp unto yourselves! Work out your liberation with diligence! Fill your mind with compassion!