It is hard to leave the world (to become a friar), it is hard to enjoy the world hard is the monastery, painful are the houses painful it is to dwell with equals (to share everything in common), and the itinerant mendicant is beset with pain.
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Let each man direct himself first to what is proper, then let him teach others thus a wise man will not suffer.Friedrich Muller
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Not to see what is pleasant is pain, and it is pain to see what is unpleasant.
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Whether touched by happiness or sorrow wise people never appear elated or depressed.
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He who seeking his own happiness does not punish or kill beings who also long for happiness, will find happiness after death.
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Beware of bodily anger, and control thy body.
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