An ignorant man committing evil deeds does not realise the consequences. The imprudent man is consumed by his own deeds, like one burnt by fire.
Quotations
Dhammapada
There is no evil that cannot be done by the liar, who has transgressed the one law of truthfulness and who is indifferent to the world beyond.
Make haste in doing good; check your mind from evil; for the mind of him who is slow in doing meritorious actions delights in evil.
Make haste in doing good; check your mind from evil; for the mind of him who is slow in doing meritorious actions delights in evil.
By degrees, little by little, from time to time, a wise person should remove his own impurities as a smith removes the dross from silver.
If one speaks or acts with pure mind, because of that happiness follows one, even as one’s shadow that never leaves.
Let us live happily, we who have no impediments. We shall subsist on joy even as the radiant gods.
Hatred never ceases through hatred in this world; through love alone they cease. This is an eternal law.
Come behold this world, which is like unto an ornamented royal chariot, wherein fools flounder, but for the wise there in no attachment.
Speak not harshly to anyone. Those thus addressed will retort. Painful, indeed, is vindictive speech. Blows in exchange may bruise you.
