15 sayings with source references.
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All that we are is made up of our thoughts; it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speak or act with a pure thought, happiness will follow him, like a shadow that never leaves him.Tradizione buddhista · Dhammapada · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 114
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As rain breaks through an ill-thatched house, passion breaks through an unreflecting mind.Tradizione buddhista · Dhammapada · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 119
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In the body restraint is good; good is restraint in speech; in thought restraint is good: good is restraint in all things.Tradizione buddhista · Dhammapada · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 141
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Like a beautiful flower, full of colour but without scent, are the fine but fruitless words of him who does not act accordingly.Tradizione buddhista · Dhammapada · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 211
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By rousing himself, by earnestness, by restraint and control the wise man may make for himself an island which no flood can overwhelm.Tradizione buddhista · Dhammapada · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 257
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It is good to tame the mind, which is difficult to hold in, and flighty, rushing wheresoever it listeth: a tamed mind brings blessings.Tradizione buddhista · Dhammapada · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 279
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The faults of others are easily perceived, but those of oneself are difficult to perceive; a man winnows his neighbour's faults like chaff, but his own fault he hides as a cheat hides the false dice from the gamester.Tradizione buddhista · Dhammapada · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 347
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A man who has learnt little grows old like an ox: his flesh grows, but his knowledge does not grow.Tradizione buddhista · Dhammapada · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 43
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There is no fire like passion; there is no shark like hatred; there is no snare like folly; there is no torrent like greed.Tradizione buddhista · Dhammapada · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 447
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As a solid rock is not shaken by the wind, so wise men falter not amidst blame or praise.Tradizione buddhista · Dhammapada · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 500
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Health is the greatest gift, contentedness the best riches.Tradizione buddhista · Dhammapada · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 52
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The fool who knows his foolishness is wise so far, at least; but a fool who thinks himself wise, he is called a fool indeed.Tradizione buddhista · Dhammapada · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 541
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He who formerly was reckless and afterwards became sober brightens up this world like the moon when freed from clouds.Tradizione buddhista · Dhammapada · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 68
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Men who have not observed discipline, and have not gained treasure in their youth, perish like old herons in a lake without fish.Tradizione buddhista · Dhammapada · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 81
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There never was, there never will be, a man who is always praised, or a man who is always blamed.Tradizione buddhista · Dhammapada · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 88
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