Speak not harshly to anyone. Those thus addressed will retort. Painful, indeed, is vindictive speech. Blows in exchange may bruise you.
Quotations
Dhammapada
Win over the ill-natured man by goodness…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.
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.
If one speaks or acts with pure mind, because of that happiness follows one, even as one’s shadow that never leaves.
A solid rock is not disturbed by the wind; even so, a wise person is not agitated by praise or blame.
