Tradizione buddhista · Dhammapada · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 119
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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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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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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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