When one, abandoning greed, feels no greed for what would merit greed, greed gets shed from him - like a drop of water from a lotus leaf.

Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth.

In four ways ... should one who flatters be understood as a foe in the guise of a friend: He approves of his friend's evil deeds, he disapproves his friend's good deeds, he praises him in his presence, he speaks ill of him in his absence.

The wind cannot shake a mountain. Neither praise nor blame moves the wise man.

One is not low because of birth nor does birth make one holy. Deeds alone make one low, deeds alone make one holy.

Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.

By defilement of mind, beings are defiled; by purification of mind, beings are purified.