We are what we think.

All that we are arises with our thoughts.

With our thoughts we make the world.

The darkest night is ignorance.

He that hath sinned

In body, word, or thought,

Or in anything

That is called sinful,

Doing not that which is righteous,

But doing much that is unrighteous--

This fool after the dissolution of the body,

Shall go to perdition.

To cease from evil, to do good, and to purify the mind yourself, this is the teaching of all the Buddhas.

Nothing brings suffering as does

the untamed, uncontrolled unattended and unrestrained heart.

That heart brings suffering.

A life of chastity ... is the road that leadeth to Nirvana.

The fiercest fire is hatred.

Through their proper knowledge

Creatures of Discernment forsake that Desire

Through which lustful creatures

Go to misfortune.

Nothing brings joy as does a

tamed, controlled, attended and restrained heart.

This heart brings joy.

The sharpest sword is a word spoken in wrath.

Look on Sin and loathe it;

With minds loathing it,

Then will ye make

An end of Misery.

Destroy the man of wicked thoughts,

Like a bamboo-tree with its fruit.

By the destruction of his Cravings,

This monk hath extinguished Hunger, and hath attained Nirvana.

An invulnerable armor is patience.

For he that is delighted by concord,

And who abideth in the Law,

Falleth not from Security.

When the gods know that a god hath fallen,

With this kindly feeling

They do encourage him--

Be thou a god again and again.

The man that is dominated by Anger

Doth not know what is seemly and seeth not the Law;

That man whom Hate doth accompany,

Becometh like unto murky darkness.

The most dangerous thief is unwholesome thought.

Whatsoever misfortunes there are

Here in this world or in the next,

They all have their root in Ignorance

And in the accumulation of Longing and Desire.

The most precious treasure is virtue.

It is because of their corrupt thoughts

That creatures go to Misery.

It is because of their tranquil thoughts

That creatures go to prosperity.

The heavens and the earth may be captured by the mind's eye.

He that distributeth not

That which he hath received--

His food, his drink, his sustenance--

Unto devotee, brahman, beggar, wayfarer--

Such a low man as he, they say, is like

Unto a lack of rain.

If one doth act in friendly wise,

With no evil thought toward any single creature,

And in so doing becometh proper,

And if he have compassion in his soul

Toward all living beings--this noble one

Doth acquire abundant Virtue.