Violence

Irrigators regulate the waters, fletchers straighten arrow shafts, carpenters shape wood, and the good control themselves.

Dhammapada

Violence

Neither going about naked, nor matted locks, nor filth, nor fasting, nor lying on the ground, nor smearing oneself with ashes and dust, nor sitting on the heels( in penance) can purify a mortal who has not overcome doubt.

Even though he be well attired, yet if he is posed, calm, controlled, and established in the holy life, having set aside violence towards all beings- he, truly, is a holy man, a renunciate, a monk.

Dhammapada

Violence

Just as a cowherd drives the cattle to pasture with a staff, so do old age and death death drive the life force of beings(from existence to existence).

When the fool commits evil deeds, he does not realize((their evil nature).
The witless man is tormented by his own deeds, like one burnt by fire.

Dhammapada

Violence

All tremble at violence, all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.

All tremble at violence, life is dear to all. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill or cause others to kill.

One who, while himself seeking happiness, oppresses with violence other beings who also desire happiness, will not attain happiness hereafter.

One who, while himself seeking happiness, does not oppress with violence other beings who also desire happiness, will find happiness hereafter.

Dhammapada

Evil

Like fine dust thrown against the wind, evil falls back upon that fool who offends an inoffensive, pure and guiltless man.

Some are born in the womb,the wicked are born in hell, the devout go to heaven, the stainless pass into Nibbana.

Neither in the sky or in mid ocean, nor by entering into mountain clefts, nowhere in the world is there a place where one may escape from the results of evil deeds.

Neither in the sky or in mid ocean, nor by entering into mountain clefts, nowhere in the world is there a place where one will not be overcome by death.

Dhammapada

Evil

Think not lightly of evil, saying,” It will not come to me.”
Drop by drop is the water pot filled.
Likewise, the fool, gathering it little by little, fills himself with evil.

Think not lightly of good, saying,” It will not come to me.”
Drop by drop is the water pot filled.
Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.
Dhammapada

The Thousands

Better it is to live one day seeing the Deathless than to live one hundred years without ever seeing the Deathless.
Dhammapada

The Thousands

Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things.
Dhammapada

The Thousands

Better it is to live one day strenuous and resolute than to live one hundred years sluggish and dissipated.
Dhammapada

The Thousands

Better it is to live one day virtuous and meditative than to live one hundred years immoral and uncontrolled.
Dhammapada