Which do you think is more my friend, the water in the four great oceans or the tears that you have shed on this long way of taking birth again and again?

A fool thinks it like honey so long as the bad deed does not bear fruit, but when it does bear fruit he experiences suffering.

Persevere in thy quest and thou shalt find what thou seekest. Pursue thy aim unswervingly and thou shalt gain victory. Struggle earnestly and thou shalt triumph.

Let a man overcome anger by love.

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

But if you do not find an intelligent companion, a wise and well-behaved person going the same way as yourself, then go on your way alone, like a king abandoning a conquered kingdom, or like a great elephant in the deep forest.

In his ignorance of the whole truth, each person maintains his own arrogant point of view.