Doing no injury to any one, dwell in the world full of love and kindness.
—Nagasena
Topics: Buddhism
He delights in giving so far as he is able.
—Nagasena
Topics: Buddhism
The Buddha, O king, magnifies not the offering of gifts to himself, but rather to whosoever … is deserving.
—Nagasena
Topics: Buddhism, God
He sought after the good of those dependent on him.
—Nagasena
Topics: Buddhism
He lives only to be a help to others.
—Nagasena
Topics: Buddhism
Vice, O king, is a mean thing, virtue is great and grand.
—Nagasena
Topics: Buddhism
Like as the lotus is untarnished by the water, so is Nirvana by any evil dispositions.
—Nagasena
Topics: Buddhism
The words of Buddha, even when stern, yet … as full of pity as the words of a father to his children.
—Nagasena
Topics: Buddhism
Even could she have kept it secret from men, … could she have kept it secret from spirit, … could she have kept it secret from the gods, yet she could not have escaped herself from the knowledge of her sin.
—Nagasena
Topics: Buddhism
Evil he overcame by righteousness.
—Nagasena
Topics: Buddhism
He walks not in religion in a quarrelsome spirit.
—Nagasena
Topics: Buddhism
He who does wrong, O king, comes to feel remorse…. But he who does well feels no remorse, and feeling no remorse, gladness will spring up within him.
—Nagasena
Topics: Buddhism
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.
—Nagasena
Topics: Buddhism
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