Friedrich Muller Quotes

"Pleasant is virtue lasting to old age, pleasant is a faith firmly rooted."

"If a man has transgressed one law, and speaks lies, and scoffs at another world, there is no evil he will not do."

"Some people are born again; evil-doers go to hell; righteous people go to heaven; those who are free from all worldly desires attain immortality."

"Fools follow after vanity, men of evil wisdom."

"By oneself the evil is done, by oneself one suffers; by oneself evil is left undone, by oneself one is purified."

"Poison does not affect one who has no wound; nor is there evil for one who does not commit evil."

"The evil-doer mourns in the next; he mourns in both. He mourns and suffers when he sees the evil of his own work."

"He(evil-doer) suffers when he thinks of the evil he has done; he suffers more when going on the evil path."

"The evil path and the good path are technical expressions for the descending and ascending scale of worlds through which all beings have to travel upward or downward, according to their deeds."

"Draw yourself out of the evil way, like an elephant sunk in mud."

"The world gives according to their faith or according to their pleasure: if a man frets about the food and the drink given to others, he will find no rest either by day or by night."

"The disciple of the truly enlightened Buddha shines forth by his knowledge among those who are like rubbish, among the people that walk in darkness."

"A man is not learned because he talks much; he who is patient, free from hatred and fear, he is called learned."

"Men, driven by fear, go to many a refuge, to mountains and forests, to groves and sacred trees."

"Hunger is the worst of diseases, the body the greatest of pains; if one knows this truly, that is Nirvâna, the highest happiness."

"Into whose conquest no one in this world enters, by what track can you lead him, the Awakened, the Omniscient, the trackless?"

"He whose conquest is not conquered again."

"May both the layman and he who has left the world think that this is done by me; may they be subject to me in everything which is to be done or is not to be done, thus is the mind of the fool, and his desire and pride increase."

"What ought to be done is neglected, what ought not to be done is done; the desires of unruly, thoughtless people are always increasing."

"The five troubles or evils of the mind are passion, anger, ignorance, arrogance, pride,to anything, rejoice in freedom from attachment, whose appetites have been conquered, and who are full of light, are free (even) in this world."