If you remove (from conduct) the purpose of the mind, the bodily act is but as rotten wood. Wherefore regulate the mind, and the body of itself will go right.--Fo-sho-hing-tsan-king. Keep watch over your hearts.--Mahaparinibbana-sutta. Let no evil desire whatever arise within you.--Cullavagga. So soon as there springs up within him an angry, malicious thought, some sinful, wrong disposition, ... he puts it away, removes it, destroys it, he makes it not to be.--Sabbasava-sutta. With not a thought of selfishness or covetous desire.--Fo-sho-hing-tsan-king. Covetousness and anger are as the serpent's poison.--Fo-sho-hing-tsan-king. They who do evil go to hell; they who are righteous go to heaven.--Dhammapada. He who, doing what he ought, ... gives pleasure to others, shall find joy in the other world.--Udanavarga. The virtuous (when injured) grieve not so much for their own pain as for the loss of happiness incurred by their injurers.--Jatakamala. He truly must have a loving heart, For all things living place in him entire confidence. --Ta-chwang-yan-king-lun. Ofttimes while he mused--as motionless As the fixed rock his seat--the squirrel leaped Upon his knee, the timid quail led forth Her brood between his feet, and blue doves pecked The rice-grains from the bowl beside his hand. --Sir Edwin Arnold. Those who search after truth should have a heart full of sympathy.--Story of Virudhaka. This (prince) feels for the welfare of the multitude.--Nalaka-sutta. The Royal Prince, perceiving the tired oxen, ... the men toiling beneath the midday sun, and the birds devouring the hapless insects, his heart was filled with grief, as a man would feel upon seeing his own household bound in fetters: thus was he touched with sorrow for the whole family of sentient creatures--Fo-pen-hing-tsih-king. This king felt the weal and the woe of his subjects as his own.--Jatakamala. What is a true gift? One for which nothing is expected in return.--Prasnottaramalika. There is a way of giving, seeking pleasure by it (or) coveting to get more; some also give to gain a name for charity, some to gain the happiness of heaven.... But yours, O friend, is a charity free from such thoughts, the highest and best degree of charity, free from self-interest or thought of getting more.--Fo-sho-hing-tsan-king. 'Tis thus men generally think and speak, they have a reference in all they do to their own advantage. But with this one it is not so: 'tis the good of others and not his own that he seeks.--Fo-pen-hing-tsih-king. Above all things be not careless; for carelessness is the great foe to virtue.--Fo-sho-hing-tsan-king. You say that while young a man should be gay, and when old then religious.... Death, however, as a robber, sword in hand, follows us all, desiring to capture his prey: how then should we wait for old age, ere we turn our minds to religion?--Fo-sho-hing-tsan-king.