Nagarjuna

"Without hope of reward Provide help to others. Bear suffering alone, And share your pleasures with beggars."

"Even three times a day to offer Three hundred cooking pots of food Does not match a portion of the merit In one instant of love."

"If you think you see both Destruction and becoming, Then you see destruction and becoming Through impaired vision."

"Due to having faith one relies on the practices, Due to having wisdom one truly knows. Of these two wisdom is the chief, Faith is its prerequisite."

"Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain."

"I am not, I will not be. I have not, I will not have." That frightens all the childish And extinguishes fear in the wise."

"I, without grasping will pass beyond sorrow, And I will attain nirvaana," one says Whoever grasps like this Has great grasping"

"Even if you seek to harm an enemy, You should remove your own defects and cultivate good qualities. Through that you will help yourself, And the enemy will be displeased."

"There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still."

"The accomplishments of a teacher of ants Are but accomplishments for earning a living. But the study of the termination of earthly incarnation— Why should that not be the accomplishment?"

"To those possessed of breeding, learning, handsome looks, Who have no wisdom, neither discipline, you need not bow. But those who do have these two qualities, Though lacking other virtues, you should revere."

"If you desire ease, forsake learning. If you desire learning, forsake ease.How can the man at his ease acquire knowledge, And how can the earnest student enjoy ease?"