If, like a broken gong, you silence yourself,you have approached Nibbana,for vindictiveness is no longer in you.– Dhammapada X. Dandavagga: Violence :: Verse 134
Just as a cowherd drives the cattle to pasture with a staff, so do old age and death drive the life force of beings (from existence to existence).– Dhammapada X. Dandavagga: Violence :: Verse 135
When the fool commits evil deeds,he does not realise (their evil nature).The witless man is tormented by his own deeds, like one burnt by fire.– Dhammapada X. Dandavagga: Violence :: Verse 136
He who inflicts violence on those who are unarmed,and offends those who are inoffensive,will soon come upon one of these ten states:– Dhammapada X. Dandavagga: Violence :: Verse 137
Sharp pain, or disaster, bodily injury, serious illness,or derangement of mind, trouble from the government, or grave charges, loss of relatives, or loss of wealth, or houses destroyed by ravaging fire;upon dissolution of the body that ignorant man is born in hell.– Dhammapada X. Dandavagga: Violence :: Verse 138 – 140
Neither going about naked, nor matted locks, nor filth, nor fasting,nor lying on the ground, nor smearing oneself with ashes and dust,nor sitting on the heels (in penance) can purify a mortal who has not overcome doubt.– Dhammapada X. Dandavagga: Violence :: Verse 141
Even though he be well-attired, yet if he is poised, calm, controlledand established in the holy life,having set aside violence towards all beingsÑ he, truly, is a holy man, a renunciate, a monk.– Dhammapada X. Dandavagga: Violence :: Verse 142
If on the hand there is no wound, one may carry even poison in it.Poison does not affect one who is free from wounds.For him who does no evil, there is no ill.– Dhammapada IX. Papavagga: Evil :: Verse 125
Only rarely is there a man in this world who,restrained by modesty, avoids reproach,as a thoroughbred horse avoids the whip.– Dhammapada X. Dandavagga: Violence :: Verse 143
Should a person commit evil,let him not do it again and again.Let him not find pleasure therein,for painful is the accumulation of evil.– Dhammapada IX. Papavagga: Evil :: Verse 117