66. Fools with no wisdom act as their own enemies. They live doing much evil. Eventually, their evil deeds will bear bitter fruit.
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76. When the wise person sees your faults, he points them out and helps you to improve. It is as if he guides you to a hidden treasure. Associate with such a wise person. As a result, only good will come, not bad.
93. The liberated ones have destroyed all impurities. They are unattached to food. Their minds are focused on the meditative objects of emptiness, signlessness, and Nibbāna. Their steps cannot be traced, like that of birds in the sky.
103. Greater than a person who conquers a thousand people in battle a thousand times is the person who conquers himself in the battle of defilements.
116. Be quick to do meritorious deeds involving generosity, virtue, and meditation! Restrain your mind from evil! When one is slow to make merit one’s mind delights in evil.
129. All beings tremble at violence. All beings fear death. Putting yourself in the place of another, do not kill or influence others to kill.
150. This body is like a city that is built of bones, plastered with flesh and blood. It is surely subject to aging and death. It is this same body that becomes an object for conceit and ungratefulness.
158. One should first establish oneself in good qualities; then only should one instruct others. Thus, the wise person will not be stained.
168. Do not be negligent! Rouse yourself! Practice the Dhamma, living a life of good conduct. The Dhamma practitioner lives happily, both in this world and the next.
182. It is difficult to be born as human. Difficult is the life of beings. It is difficult to gain the opportunity to hear the true Dhamma. Rare is the appearance of Buddhas.
66. Fools with no wisdom act as their own enemies. They live doing much evil. Eventually, their evil deeds will bear bitter fruit.
61. You should find a friend who has better qualities than you or has equal qualities. If you do not find such a friend, with great determination, you should live alone. There is no friendship with fools.
223. Conquer anger with non-anger, conquer wickedness with goodness, conquer stinginess with giving and conquer a liar with truth.
259. One is not an upholder of the Dhamma only because he preaches a lot. Having heard even a little, if one experiences the Dhamma personally and is never negligent of the Dhamma practice, one is indeed an upholder of the Dhamma.
276. You, yourself, must make a strong effort to attain Nibbāna. Buddhas only point the way. Those who follow the path and those who meditate will be freed from Māra’s bonds.
290. One who expects greater happiness must be able to give up lesser happiness. The wise person looking for the greater, Nibbāna, renounces the lesser, sense pleasures.
326. Formerly, this mind wandered about where it wished, as it liked, and as it pleased, but now, I will thoroughly master it with wisdom as an elephant keeper controls with his stick an elephant in its mating time.
334. The craving of a person who lives negligently spreads like a creeping vine. Like a monkey who leaps from tree to tree in the forest seeking fruits, that person leaps from life to life, in this journey of misery.
360. Restraint of the eye is good. Good is restraint of the ear. Restraint of the nose is good. Good is restraint of the tongue.