le."
A contented mind is always joyful.--Fo-sho-hing-tsan-king.
Let us then live happily, though we call nothing our own.--Dhammapada.
Not the whole world, ... the ocean-girt earth,
With all the seas and the hills that girdle it,
Would I wish to possess with shame added thereto.
--Questions of King Milinda.
Let none be forgetful of his own duty for the sake of
another's.--Dhammapada.
The faults of others are easily seen; one's own faults are difficult
to see.--Udanavarga.
Self-examination is painful.--Pillar Inscriptions of Asoka.
A man winnows his neighbor's faults like chaff: his own he hides, as a
cheat the bad die from the gambler.--Dhammapada.
She orders her household aright, she is hospitable to kinsmen and
friends, a chaste wife, a thrifty housekeeper, skilful and diligent in
all her duties.--Sigalovada-sutta.
The wife ... should be cherished by her husband.--Sigalovada-sutta.
Were I not ready to suffer adversity with my husband as well as to
enjoy happiness with him, I should be no true wife.--Legend of
We-than-da-ya.
It is better to die in righteousness than to live in
unrighteousness.--Loweda Sangrahaya.
Better to fling away life than transgress our convictions of
duty.--Ta-chwang-yan-king-lun.
Better for me to die battling (with the temper) than that I should
live defeated.--Padhana-sutta.
The loving Father of all that lives.--Tsing-tu-wan.
Our loving Father, and Father of all that breathes.--Daily Manual of
the Shaman.
Even so of all things that have ... life, there is not one that (the
Buddhist anchorite) passes over; ... he looks upon all with ...
deep-felt love. This, verily, ... is the way to a state of union with
God.--Tevijja-sutta.
Doubts will exist as long as we live in the world.
Yet, pursuing with joy the road of virtue,
Like the man who observes the rugged path along the precipice, we ought
Gladly and profitably to follow it.
--Siau-chi-kwan.
To feed a single good man is infinitely greater in point of merit,
than attending to questions about heaven and earth, spirits and
demons, such as occupy ordinary men.--Sutra of Forty-two Sections.
What is goodness? First and foremost the agreement of the will with
the conscience.--Sutra of Forty-two Sections.
If you remove (from conduct) the purpose of the mind, the bodily act
is but as rotten wood. Wherefore regulate the mind, and the body of
itself will go right.--Fo-sho-hing-
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