Not to see what is pleasant is pain, and it is pain to see what is unpleasant.
O man, know this, that the unrestrained are in a bad state; take care that greediness and vice do not bring thee to grief for a long time!
Of the people who possess these virtues, who live without thoughtlessness, and who are emancipated through true knowledge, the tempter, never finds the way.
On reaching immortality, the dominion of death is overcome.
One is the road that leads to wealth, another the road that leads to immortality.
One ought to follow the wise, the intelligent, the learned, the much enduring, the dutiful, the elect; one ought to follow a good and wise man, as the moon follows the path of the stars.
People praise earnestness; thoughtlessness is always blamed.
Pleasant is attainment of intelligence, pleasant is avoiding of sins.
Pleasant is virtue lasting to old age, pleasant is a faith firmly rooted.
Pleasures destroy the foolish, if they look not for the other shore; the foolish by his thirst for pleasures destroys himself, as if he were his own enemy.
Poison does not affect one who has no wound; nor is there evil for one who does not commit evil.
Purity and impurity belong to oneself, no one can purify another.
Rouse thyself! do not be idle!
Self is the lord of self, who else could be the lord?
Silently shall I endure abuse as the elephant in battle endures the arrow sent from the bow: for the world is ill-natured.
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