The real compensation of a right action is inherent in having performed it.
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns.
Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound.
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.