'All living things fear being beaten with clubs. All living things fear being put to death. Putting oneself in the place of the other, Let no one kill nor cause another to kill.'
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Those who have high thoughts are ever striving; they are not happy to remain in the same place. Like swans that leave their lake and rise into the air, they leave their home and fly for a higher home.
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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.
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Travel only with thy equals or thy betters if there are none, travel alone.
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Better than power over all the earth, better than going to heaven and better than dominion over the worlds is the joy of the man who enters the river of life that leads to Non-Being.
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Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
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Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.
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Do not speak harshly to any one those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful blows for blows will touch thee.
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If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse... If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows, as a shadow follows its source.
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'One act of pure love in saving life is greater than spending the whole of one's time in religious offerings to the gods.'
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For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time hatred ceases by love - this is an old rule.
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One's own self conquered is better than all other people.
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Because he has pity on every living creature, therefore is a man called “holy”
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