- Leader | 563 BC - 483 BC
When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.
Buddha
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Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.
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He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.
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The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
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A woman of the world is anxious to exhibit her form and shape, whether walking, standing, sitting, or sleeping. Even when represented as a picture, she desires to captivate with the charms of her beauty and, thus, to rob men of their steadfast heart.
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Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance of fruits. But alms given to those who are yet under the tyrannical yoke of the passions are like seed deposited in a bad soil. The passions of the receiver of the alms choke, as it were, the growth of merits.
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I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
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Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.
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Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.
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Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.
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The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.
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