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. |