It is in this way that I went forth to teach.

Those who recognize the existence of suffering, its cause, its remedy, and its cessation, have fathomed the four noble truths. They will walk in the right path.

To master the pride of defiant selfhood, that in truth is the highest bliss.

A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold of the root of a wild vine and swung himself down over the edge. The tiger sniffed at him from above. Trembling, the man looked down to where, far below, another tiger was waiting to eat him. Only the vine sustained him. Two mice, one white and one black, little by little started to gnaw away the vine. The man saw a luscious strawberry near him. Grasping the vine with one hand, he plucked the strawberry with the other. How sweet it tasted!

Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.

(They) were responsible for spreading the Buddhist religion throughout India and East Asia.

A fool learns nothing from a wise man; but a wise man learns from a fool.