The senior venerable Mahākoṭṭhita said this:
Calm and still,
thoughtful in counsel, not restless—
he shakes off bad qualities
as the gale shakes leaves off a tree.
~Thag1.2
The affluent and the wealthy,
even the aristocrats who rule the land,
In the Jaṭā Sutta, the Buddha is asked this question:
“Tangled within, tangled without:
these people are tangled in tangles.
I ask you this, Gotama:
who can untangle this tangle?”
Whoever is a drunkard, broke, and destitute,
Dragged by thirst from bar to bar,
Sinking into debt like a stone in water
Into bewilderment quickly plunges.
~DN31
The senior Venerable Revata the Doubter said this:
See this wisdom of the Realized Ones!
Like a fire blazing in the night,
giving light, giving vision,
they dispel the doubt of those who’ve come.
~Thag1.3
When sleeping late becomes a habit
And night is seen as time to rise,
For one perpetually intoxicated,
A home life cannot be maintained.
~DN31
Truly, an evil deed committed
does not immediately bear fruit,
like milk that does not turn sour all at once.
But smoldering, it follows the fool
like fire covered by ashes.
~Dhammapada 71
In the Cakka Sutta, the Buddha says:
Bhikkhus, there are these four wheels. When these four wheels turn,...
As a single slab of rock
won't budge in the wind,
so the wise are not moved
by praise,
by blame.
~Dhammapada 81
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Ven. Koṇḍañña, the senior monk who was awakened right after the Buddha, said this:
My confidence grew
as I heard the teaching, so full of flavor.
Dispassion is what was taught,
without any grasping at all.
In the Brahmacariya Sutta, the Buddha says:
Ill done is that action of doing
which one repents later,
and the fruit of which
one, weeping, reaps with tears.
Well done is that action of doing
which one repents not later,
and the fruit of which
one reaps with delight and happiness.
~Dhammapada 67-8
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At one time, the Buddha was staying near Sāvatthī in Jeta’s Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika’s Monastery.
Then late at night, several glorious deities of the host of the fault-finders, lighting up the entire Jeta’s Grove, went up to the Buddha, and recited these verses:
Better than a thousand useless words
is one useful word,
hearing which one attains peace.
~Dhammapada 100
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Before you say anything, ask yourself whether it’s necessary or not. If it’s not, don’t say it.
This is the first step in training the mind — for if you can’t have any control over your mouth, how can you expect to have any control over your mind?
~Ajahn Fuang
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