Gautama Buddha on evil
Gautama Buddha100 quotes“It is in a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that leads him to evil ways.”
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True love is born from understanding.
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Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha 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.
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth.
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha 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
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha Attachment leads to suffering.
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha The ignorant man is an ox. He grows in size, not in wisdom.
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha 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.
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha 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.
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha May all that have life be delivered from suffering.
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha When you come upon a path that brings benefit and happiness to all, follow this course as the moon journeys through the stars.
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgements but rain your kindness equally on all.
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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
HerodotusHerodotus Understand that for every rule which I have mentioned from the Quran, the Devil has one to match it, which he puts beside the proper rule to cause error.
Al-GhazaliAl-Ghazali The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.
Calvin CoolidgeCalvin Coolidge Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
Anatole FranceAnatole France 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.
HerodotusHerodotus Evil people you never forget them. And that’s the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
Bette DavisBette Davis Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
AristophanesAristophanes 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.
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