Nagarjuna quotes:
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Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.
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The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
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So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts.
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The victorious ones have saidThat emptiness is the relinquishing of all views.For whomever emptiness is a view,That one has achieved nothing.
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If you desire ease, forsake learning.
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Neither from itself nor from another, Nor from both, Nor without a cause, Does anything whatever, anywhere arise