The Dhammapada

Let us then try what love can do to mend a broken world.

In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain’t so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.

That strong mother doesn’t tell her cub ‘Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you’. She says, ‘Toughen up, this is reality we are living in’.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.

Gazing to the south, from the eastern peak, the moon appears through the raindrops.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

A wise man makes what he learns his own, the other shows he is but a copy or a collection at most.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

Guilt, regret, resentment, sadness and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past and not enough presence.