Gautama Buddha - Truth Quotes

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Conquer anger with love, evil with good, meanness with generosity, and lies with truth.

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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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Though a fool spend all his life with wise men, he will know the truth no more than a spoon knows the taste of the soup.

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Monks, there are other things which are very deep (profound), very hard to understand, very difficult to perceive, so holy and sacred, unreached by means of mind, so subtle, that they are only to be understood and experienced by the wise. These things were perceived clearly, seen clearly and were discarded by the Tathagata, and by this act based on the truth that people praise and revered Tathagatha. What are those things?

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And this, monks, is the noble truth of the origination of dukkha: the craving that makes for further becoming — accompanied by passion & delight, relishing now here & now there — i. e., craving for sensual pleasure, craving for becoming, craving for non-becoming.

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They who imagine truth in untruth and see untruth in truth will never arrive at the truth.

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