The association with unwholesome friends and companions is the worst of all paths to ruin — for it brings greater destruction than anything else, and it is the root cause from which all other paths to ruin follow in succession.…
What is the difference between the character of a wise person and that of a fool? The fool takes fault-finding in others as his source of strength. The power of the fool lies in finding fault — this person is…
Every person is born into this world without any knowledge whatsoever. All that we come to know must be learned after birth — we enter this world in a complete state of unknowing. And if, in those earliest stages of…
Were there no teachers in this world, all of humanity would remain in ignorance — for every person is born into a state of unknowing. All knowledge, whether great or small, depends upon a teacher. Whatever knowledge a teacher imparts…
False Friends comprise four types: True Friends comprise four types: The qualities of a True Friend are as follows:
“Associate with a certain kind of person, and you shall become like that person” — for it is in human nature that we transmit our habits and dispositions to one another. Should we keep the company of virtuous individuals, we…
