“Speak the truth do not become angered and give when asked, even be it a little. By these three conditions one goes to the presence of the gods.”
“However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?”
“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”
“The Gift of Truth excels all other Gifts.”
“The non-doing of any evil,the performance of what's skillful,the cleansing of one's own mind:this is the teaching of the Awakened. ”
“Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living.”
“You throw thorns, falling in my silence they become flowers.”