"Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first bro..." — Buddha

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance of fruits. But alms given to those who are yet under the tyrannical yoke of the passions are like seed deposited in a bad soil. The passions of the receiver of the alms choke, as it were, the growth of merits.