The Four Noble Truths: Suffering, the origins of suffering, the cessation of suffering, and the Noble Eightfold Path which leads to the cessation of suffering.

Watchfulness is the path to immortality, and thoughtlessness the path to death. The watchful do not die, but the thoughtless are already like the dead.

The Buddhas do but tell the Way; it is for you to swelter at the task.

There is no fire like passion, no shark like hatred, no snare like folly and no torrent like greed.

The wise man will not look for the faults of others, nor for what they have done or left undone, but will look rather to his own misdeeds.

Like beautiful flowers, full of colors but without scent, are the well-spo-ken words of the man who does not practice what he preaches.

A man who has learned little grows old like an ox: his flesh grows, but not his mind.

He who injures or kills another who longs for happiness will not find it for himself.

He who has no wound may touch poison with his hand, and it will not harm him. There is no evil for one who does no evil.

It is easy to see the faults of others, but hard to see one's own. Men point out the faults of others but cover their own as a dishonest gambler hides a losing throw of the dice.