1
It is better indeed, to conquer
oneself than to conquer onters. Neither a deva, nor a gandhabba, nor Mara together
with Brahma can trn into defeat the victory of the man who controls himself. (Dhammapada,
v. 104. 105)
2
I say not that they are a
danger, Ananda, for him the freedom of whose will is unshakable. But to one who lives
earnestly, ardently, strenuously, if he come among such as have attained to happiness in
this present life, there I say that gains, favors, and flattery might be for him a danger.
(The Book of the Kindred Saying II, 162)
3
Rare in this world is the kind
of person who out of a sense of shame restrains from doing evil and keeps himself awake
like a good horse that gives no cause to be whipped. (Dhammapada, v. 143)
4
The Exalted One addresssed the
brethren, and said: Ñ The four earnest meditations, the fourfold great struggle against
evil, the four roads to saintship, the five moral powers, the five organs of spiritual
sense, the seven kinds of wisdom, and the Aryan eightfold path, these, O brethren, are the
truths which, when I had perceived, I made known to you, which when you have mastered it
behoves you to practise, meditate upon, and spread abroad, in order that pure religion may
last long and be perpetuated, in order that it may continue to be for the good and the
happiness of the great multitudes, out of pity for the world, to the good and the gain and
the weal of gods and men! (Dialogues of the Buddha II. 128)
5
All are afraid of th estick, all
fear death. Putting oneself in another’s place, one should not beat or kill others. (Dhammapada,
v. 129)
6
At that time, Vaccha, when a
being lays aside this body and rises up again in another body, for that I declare craving
to be the fuel. Indeed, Vaccha, craving is on that occasion the fuel. (The Book of the
Kindred Saying IV, p. 281)
7
As with a stick th ecowherd
drives his cattle to the pasture, so also, Aging and Death drive the life of beings. (Dhammapada,
v. 135)
8
Whatsoever is of a nature to arise, all that is of a nature to cease. (The
Book of the Kindred Saying IV, p. 66)
9
- He that beareth patiently the pains that come
upon him,
- That rack the body, drain the life, and feareth
not their touch,
- He hath come forth from the abyss and reached the
solid ground.
- (The Book of the Kindred Saying IV, p.
138)
10
The destruction of lust, the
destruction of hatred, the destruction of illusion, that is called Arahantship. (The
Book of the Kindred Saying IV, p. 171)
11
This man of little learning
grows old like an ox; only his flesh grows but not his wisdom. (Dhammapada, v. 152)
12
Not in the sky, nor in the
middle of the ocean, nor in the cave of a mountain, nor anywhere else, is there a place
where one cannot be oppressed by Death. (Dhammapada, v 128)
13
If a man does what is good, he
should do it again and again; he should take delight in it; the accumulation of merit
leads to happiness. (Dhammapada, v 118)
14
If one wrongs a person who
should not be wronged, one who is pure and is free from moral defilements viz., an arahat,
the evil falls back upon that fool, like fine dust thrown againsr the wind. (Dhammapada, v
125)
15
He who overwhelms with good the
evil that he has done lights up this world (with the llight of Magga Insight), as
does the moon freed from clouds. (Dhammapada, v. 173).