“There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.”

If a traveller does not meet with one who is his better, or his equal, let him firmly keep to his solitary journey; there is no companionship with a fool.

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth.

Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.

If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.

The past is already gone, the future is not yet here. There’s only one moment for you to live, and that is the present moment

Attachment leads to suffering.

The ignorant man is an ox. He grows in size, not in wisdom.

A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

May all that have life be delivered from suffering.

When you come upon a path that brings benefit and happiness to all, follow this course as the moon journeys through the stars.

As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgements but rain your kindness equally on all.

Kindness should become the natural way of life,not the exception.

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.

The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.

Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.

Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one’s share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.

Evil people you never forget them. And that’s the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.

Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.

It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.

Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.

The great sickness and the grievous evil consist in this: that all the things that man finds written in books, he presumes to think of as true-and all the more so if the books are old.