Ceasing to do evil, Cultivating the good, Purifying the heart: This is the teaching of the Buddhas.

Now know I well what people sought formerly above all else when they sought teachers of virtue. Good sleep they sought for themselves, and poppy-head virtues to promote it! To all those be-lauded sages of the academic chairs, wisdom was sleep without dreams: they knew no higher significance of life. Even at present, to be sure, there are some like this preacher of virtue, and not always so honorable: but their time is past. And not much longer do they stand: there they already lie. Blessed are those drowsy ones: for they shall soon nod to sleep.

When you have got a thing where you want, it is a good thing to leave it where it is.

A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.

Praise and blame, good and bad, even heat and cold, must be equally acceptable to us.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve, and bad things are very easy to get.