Don’t sacrifice your own welfare for that of another, no matter how great. Realizing your own true welfare, be intent on just that.
- Dhammapada

Blinded this world how few see clearly! Just as birds who’ve escaped from a net are few, few are the people who make it to heaven.
- Dhammapada

I am not ones servant. So said the Buddha. With what I have gained I wander about in all the world, without being subservient to anyone: therefore, it thou like, rain, O sky!
- Sutta-nipata

Compassion is characterized as promoting the aspect of allaying suffering. Its function resides in not [enduring] others’ suffering. It is manifested as non-cruelty. Its proximate cause is to see helplessness in those overwhelmed by suffering. It succeeds when it makes cruelty subside, and it fails when it produces sorrow.
- Buddhaghosa, “Visuddhimagga”

A devata (God) said: “One who has sons delights in sons, One with cattle delights in cattle. Acquisitions truly are a man’s delight; Without acquisitions one does not delight.” The Buddha answered: “One who has sons sorrows over sons. One with cattle sorrows over cattle. Acquisitions truly are a man’s sorrows; Without acquisitions one does not sorrow.”

Attentiveness is the path to true life; Indifference is the path to death. The attentive do not die; The indifferent are as if they are dead already.
- Dhammapada

If he recites many teachings, but –heedless man– doesn’t do what they say, like a cowherd counting the cattle of others, he has no share in the contemplative life.
- Dhammapada

Those who regard non-essence as essence and see essence as non-, don’t get to the essence, ranging about in wrong resolves. But those who know essence as essence, and non-essence as non-, get to the essence, ranging about in right resolves.
- Dhammapada

And better than a hundred years lived apathetic & unenergetic, is one day lived energetic & firm.
- Dhammapada

What others call happiness, that the Noble Ones declare to be suffering. What others call suffering, that the Noble Ones have found to be happiness. See how difficult it is to understand the Dhamma! Herein those without insight have completely gone astray.
- Sutta Nipata