Shocking Sayings
758 sayings found from the Ancient era
The soft and the weak overcome the hard and the strong.
He who boasts of his own achievements will not endure.
The heaviest thing in the world is a human heart.
When the government is lax, the people are simple. When the government is meddlesome, the people are discontented.
The sage wears coarse clothes and carries jewels in his bosom.
If a nation is to be great, it must be like a great river, it must flow freely in every direction.
One who is too insistent on his own views finds few who agree with him.
Do not kill. Do not lie. Do not steal. Do not be unchaste. Do not possess anything.
A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the supreme abode.
All living beings desire to live.
Look at the world in the way it is, and do not try to rearrange it to suit your desires.
One who is always striving for the welfare of all beings, who is free from all passions, and who has attained the highest knowledge, is called a Tirthankara.
The soul is the perceiver, the knower, the agent, the enjoyer, and the sufferer.
Have compassion towards all living beings. Hatred leads to destruction.
The greatest penance is to bear all sufferings cheerfully.
Control of the senses is the highest form of self-control.
He who neglects the present moment, loses both future and past.
Truth is the very nature of the soul.
By sincerity, a man gains knowledge, by knowledge, liberation.
The soul is pure and eternal. It is never born, nor does it ever die.