It's better to leave a misdeed undone. A misdeed burns you afterward. Better that a good deed be done that, after you've done it, won't make you burn.

- Dhammapada, 22, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu

One should not strike a brahmin, nor should the brahmin let loose with his anger. Shame on the brahmin's killer. More shame on the brahmin. whose anger's let loose.

- Dhammapada 389, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu

One act of pure love in saving life is greater than spending the whole of ones time in religious offerings to the gods.

- Dhammapada

An accomplished person does not by a philosophical view, or by thinking become arrogant, for he is not of that sort; not by holy works, nor by tradition is he to be led, he is not led into any of the resting places of the mind.

- adapted from the Sutta-nipata, translated by V. Fausboll