Hate is not overcome by hate; by love alone is hate appeased. This is an eternal law.
Though one should conquer a thousand times a thousand men in battle, he who conquers his own self, is the greatest of all conquerers.
Though one should live a hundred years without wisdom and control, yet better, indeed, is a single day’s life of one who is wise and meditative.
Oneself, indeed, is one’s saviour, for what other saviour would there be? With oneself well controlled one obtains a saviour difficult to find.
To cease from all evil, to cultivate good, to purify one’s mind: This is the advice of all Buddhas.
Victory breeds hatred. The defeated live in pain. Happily the peaceful live, giving up victory and defeat.
There is no fire like lust, no crime like hate. There is no ill like the body, no bliss higher than Peace.
Let go the past. Let go the future. Let go the present. Crossing to the farther shore of existence, with mind released from everything, do not again undergo birth and decay.
It is man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
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