No one in the world goes unblamed. - Dhp Respected are those who are respectful. - Jaat The reverent are revered in return. Jat Who through unskillful means hopes for gain will ever grieve. - Jaat Who has children grieves because of children, just as one who has cattle grieves because of cattle. - Nandisutta Through full attainment of right view comes the liberations from all suffering. - Vipallaasasutta A living being should not kill another living being; the murderer of beings truly grieves. - Jaat Despised is one who is too soft, and the one who is too hard garners enmity. - Jaat A person who holds back through shame is among the few to be found in this world. - hirisutta The sage visits not with families, for thereby one is distracted and attains concentration with difficulty. - Paraabhavasutta Who practice according to what was taught by the Buddha will make an end to suffering, practicing according to the teacher's dispensation. - Brahmacariyasutta Fully-endowed with knowledge and conduct - such a one is chief among angels and humankind. - agga~n~nasutta Hard to find is one who is endowed with all virtue. - Jaat. Who is fond of sleep, fond of company and unenergetic, lazy and easily angered; this is the door leading to ruin. - Paraabhavasutta The wise become full of goodness little by little. - Dhp. When one has full and clear awareness, unarisen wholesomeness arises and arisen unwholesomeness goes to extinction. - Ekanipaata When one has evil friends, unarisen unwholesomeness arises and arisen wholesomeness goes to extinction. - Ekanipaata Who bears with the speech of those below themselves - this, they say, is the highest forbearance. - Jaat There is no progress for one whose mind is bent on destruction. - Jaat Worldly material is abandoned by one one desirous of peace. - upaneyyasutta One should associate with those who are greater than oneself. - Jaat Faring alone is better; there is no friendship with fools. - Upakkilesasutta Who, though doing no evil, associates with evil-doers is suspected of evil, and a bad reputation is spread about them. - Sukhasutta One becomes of such a sort as those with whom one dwells. - Jaat. One should associate with good friends of pure livelihood and unindolent. - Theragaathaa Happiness, indeed, is the fellowship with good fellows. - Jaat. Attendance upon the learned is the root of the holy life. - Theragaathaa He who stays a friend when need arises is a true friend. - Singaalakasutta Development lies in the fellowship with good fellows. - Theragaathaa The peaceless lead one to hell, the peaceful lead one to heaven. - Jaat Attending upon one's betters leads quickly to progress. - Sevisutta He has a part in the greatness who associates with the great. - Jaat Many enemies there are who present themselves in the guise of a friend - Jaat. The wise eschews bad company, for fear of staining touch: Wrap rotten fish in grass, you'll find the grass stinks just as much. - Jaat Wrap rotten fish in grass, you'll find the grass stinks just as much. They who keep fool's company themselves will soon be such. - Jat Sweet frankincense wrap in a leaf, the leaf will smell as sweet. So they themselves will soon grow wise, that sit at wise men's feet. - Jaat If one gains a wise friend, the mindful should fare as one with them. - Dhp The entirety of the holy life indeed is this: friendship with the good. - Upa.d.dhasutta The power of persuasion is for the wise. - Balasutta Better is an unfriendly wise one than a sympathetic fool. - Jaat. One should give up black dhamma; the wise should develop only the white. - Parasutta Reproach by the wise is indeed better than the approval of fools. - Theragaathaa Whatsoever danger at all may come about, it is ever brought about by fools, not by the wise. - Bhayasutta Just as a mountain of solid rock is not blown by the wind, so unwavering are the wise in the face of praise and blame. - Dhp. In truth, purpose, and righteousness it is said the wise establish themselves. - Subhaasitasutta Non-indolence praise the wise in the performance of goodness. - Appamaadasutta The unclinging go to liberation - Devaduutasutta Who fares as a fool with low wisdom is indeed an enemy to themselves. - Khemasutta Peaceful he is not who speaks unrighteously. - Khomadussasutta The fool is not aware when doing evil deeds; thus by such acts one without wisdom is heated up as if burnt by a fire. - Dhp. Long for the fool is the wandering on without realizing the dhamma. - Dhp. The peaceless go to hell; the peaceful go to heaven. - Macchariyasutta Easily done by the good is good; good by the evil is hard to do. - Vinaya Evil by the evil is easily done; evil by the noble is hard to do. - Vinaya Goals slip by for a fool who blindly follows the stars. - Jaataka Touched by pleasure or by pain, the wise express no highs or lows. - Dhp. Wise are they who bestow happiness; happiness they receive in return. - Bhojanadaanasutta Yea, who unwittingly builds a foundation for rebirth; again and again the slowminded one gives rise to suffering. - Theragaathaa Truth, indeed, is the better of all flavours. - Vittasutta One should only speak those words that do not enflame one's mind. - Subhaasitasutta Truth, verily, is speech that never dies. - Subhaasitasutta In times of deliberation, hasty speech is not called for. - Jaataka Speech, even if skillful, are not so if untimely. - Jaataka Speech should be spoken if it be good and not if it be evil. - Kaamasutta When spoken, evil speech inflames. - Jaataka When I speak the dhamma, evil cannot bespoil my heart. - Jaataka Through conducting business one's purity is to be known. - Patisallaanasutta However one speaks, so should one act. - Mahagovindasutta One is not wise thereby who speaks much. - Dhp. Through conversation one's wisdom is to be known - Catukkanipaata