Gautama Buddha - Man Quotes

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It is just as if a man were to draw out a reed from its sheath. He might think: This is the reed, this is the sheath, reed and sheath are different. Now the reed has been pulled from the sheath. … In the same way a monk with mind concentrated directs his mind to the production of a mind-made body. He draws that body out of this body.

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Faith is the best wealth for a man in this world. Righteousness when well practised brings happiness. Truth is the sweetest of flavours. They say the life of one living by wisdom is the best.

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If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current — how can he help others across?

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If by leaving a small pleasure one sees a great pleasure, let a wise man leave the small pleasure, and look to the great.

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Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.

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If you see an intelligent man who tells you where true treasures are to be found, who shows what is to be avoided, and administers reproofs, follow that wise man ; it will be better, not worse, for those who follow him.

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Wisdom is purified by morality, and morality is purified by wisdom: where one is, the other is, the moral man has wisdom and the wise man has morality, and the combination of morality of wisdom is called the highest thing in the world.

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The virtuous man delights in this world and he delights in the next

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If a man offend a harmless, pure, and innocent person, the evil falls back upon that fool, like light dust thrown up against the wind.

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All that we are is the result of what we have thought; it is founded on our thoughts; it is made up of our thoughts. A man's life is the direct result of his thoughts... We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world.

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If a man does what is good, let him do it again; let him delight in it; happiness is the outcome of good.

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And he who lives a hundred years, idle and weak, a life of one day is better if a man has attained firm strength.

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