Born to give joy and bring peace to the world.--Fo-pen-hing-tsih-king.
The whole world of sentient creatures enjoyed ... universal
tranquility.--Fo-sho-hing-tsan-king.
Enmity and envy gave way to peace; contentment and rest prevailed
everywhere; ... discord and variance were entirely
appeased.--Fo-sho-hing-tsan-king.
Creatures of every variety were moved one toward another lovingly;
fear and terror altogether put away, none entertained a hateful
thought; the Angels, foregoing their heavenly joys, sought rather to
alleviate the sinner's sufferings.--Fo-sho-hing-tsan-king.
The virtuous retain in their mind the good done to them, whereas the
evil they experience drops from their mind, like water from a
lotus-petal.--Jatakamala.
Vice, O king, is a mean thing, virtue is great and grand.--Questions
of King Milinda.
I deem ... unrighteous actions contemptible.--Mahavagga.
Like food besmeared with poison, I abhor such happiness as is tainted
with unrighteousness.--Jatakamala.
As men sow, thus shall they reap.--Ta-chwang-yan-king-lun.
Actions have their reward, and our deeds have their
result.--Mahavagga.
Our deeds are not lost, they will surely come (back
again).--Kokaliya-sutta.
Reaping the fruit of right or evil doing, and sharing happiness or
misery in consequence.--Fo-sho-hing-tsan-king.
Your evil thoughts and evil words but hurt
yourself.--Fo-sho-hing-tsan-king.
Hell was not created by any one.... The fire of the angry mind
produces the fire of hell, and consumes its possessor. When a person
does evil, he lights the fire of hell, and burns with his own
fire.--Mulamuli.
People grieve from selfishness.--Jara-sutta.
Doing good we reap good, just as a man who sows that which is sweet
(enjoys the same).--Fa-kheu-pi-us.
He who does wrong, O king, comes to feel remorse.... But he who does
well feels no remorse, and feeling no remorse, gladness will spring up
within him.--Questions of King Milinda.
Morality brings happiness: ... at night one's rest is peaceful, and on
waking one is still happy.--Udanavarga.
If, then, you would please me, show pity to that poor
wretch.--Nagananda.
Oppressed with others' sufferings.--Fo-sho-hing-tsan-king.
A loving heart is the great requirement! ... not to oppress, not to
destroy; ... not to exalt oneself by treading down others; but to
comfort and befriend those in suffering.--Fo-sho-hing-tsan-king.
He cares for and cherishes his people more than one would a naked and
perishing child.--Fo-pen-hing-tsih-king.
The acts and the practice of religion, to wit, sympathy, charity,
truthfulness, purity, gentleness, kindness.--Pillar Inscriptions of
Asoka.
Go ye, O Brethren, and wander forth, for the gain of the many, the
welfare of the many, in compassion for the world, for the good, for
the gain, for the welfare of ... men.... Publish, O, Brethren, the
doctrine glorious.... Preach ye a life of holiness ... perfect and
pure.--Mahavagga.
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