It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles.

Whoever sees me sees the teaching, and whoever sees the teaching sees me.

Monks, one thing, if practiced and made much of, conduces to great thrill, great profit, great security after the toil, to mindfulness and self-possession, to the winning of knowledge and insight, to pleasant living in this very life, to the realization of the fruit of release by knowledge. What is that one thing: It is mindfulness centered on the body.

They who imagine truth in untruth and see untruth in truth will never arrive at the truth.

A man may conquer a million men in battle but one who conquers himself is, indeed, the greatest of conquerors.

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

Why do what you will regret? Why bring tears upon yourself? Do only what you do not regret, And fill yourself with joy.