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.
Quotations
Dhammapada
Speak not harshly to anyone. Those thus addressed will retort. Painful, indeed, is vindictive speech. Blows in exchange may bruise you.
A solid rock is not disturbed by the wind; even so, a wise person is not agitated by praise or blame.
Come behold this world, which is like unto an ornamented royal chariot, wherein fools flounder, but for the wise there is no attachment.
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.
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.
Hatred never ceases through hatred in this world; through love alone they cease. This is an eternal law.
