d compassion. Ah, how
watchful should we be over ourselves!"--Sha-mi-lu-i-yao-lio.

I desire to produce in myself a loving heart towards all living
creatures.--Fo-pen-hing-tsih-king.

Let us then practice good works, and inspect our thoughts that we do
no evil.--Fo-sho-hing-tsan-king.

Now, therefore, it behooves me to examine into my faults; and if I
find anything wrong in me, to put it away, and practice virtue
only.--Jataka.

Therefore ... we would humble ourselves and repent us of our sins. Oh!
that we may have strength to do so aright!--Liturgy of Kwan-yin.

If we know that we have done wrong, and yet refuse to acknowledge it,
we are guilty of prevarication.--Chinese Pratimoksha.

From the very first, ... having no wish to benefit others, or to do
good in the least degree, we have been adding sin unto sin; and even
though our actual crimes have not been so great, yet a wicked heart
has ruled us within. Day and night, without interval or hesitation,
have we continually contrived how to do wrong.--Liturgy of Kwan-yin.

Accept the confession I make of my sin in its sinfulness, to the end
that in future I may restrain myself therefrom.--Cullavagga.

He who offends an offenseless man, ... against such a fool the evil
reverts, like fine dust thrown against the wind.--Kokaliya-sutta.

May wisdom be with me always.--Inscription in Temple of Nakhon Vat.

The fool who knows his foolishness is wise at any rate so far. But the
fool who thinks himself wise, he is a fool indeed.--Dhammapada.

He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot--him I call a
real driver: other people are merely holding the reins.--Dhammapada.

Anger, alas! how it changes the comely face! how it destroys the
loveliness of beauty!--Fo-sho-hing-tsan-king.

The fool who is angered, and thinks to triumph by the use of abusive
language, is always vanquished by him whose words are patient.--Udanavarga.

He who lives far from me yet walks righteously, is ever near
me.--Fo-sho-hing-tsan-king.

He sought after the good of those dependent on him.--Questions of King
Milinda.

Who, though he be lord over others, is patient with those that are
weak.--Udanavarga.

Loving her maids and dependents even as herself.--Lalita Vistara.

Loving all things which live even as themselves.--Sir Edwin Arnold.

Hear ye all this moral maxim, and having heard it keep it well: Whatsoever
is displeasing to yourselves never do to another.--Bstanhgyur.

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