- One should give up anger, renounce pride, and overcome all fetters ⛓️. Suffering never befalls him who clings not to mind and body and is detached.
- He who checks rising anger 🌡️ as a charioteer checks a rolling chariot, him I call a true charioteer 🐴. Others only hold the reins.
- Overcome the angry by non-anger ☮️; overcome the wicked by goodness 🤗; overcome the miser by generosity 🧺; overcome the liar by truth 📕.
- Speak the truth 🗣️; yield not to anger 💭; when asked, give even if you only have a little 🪴. By these three 3️⃣ means can one reach the presence of the gods (Spirits, God 🕊️).
- Those sages 🧠 who are inoffensive and ever restrained in body 🧍♂️, go to the Deathless State, where, having gone, they grieve no more 🌤️.
- Those who are ever vigilant 👁️, who discipline themselves day ☀️ and night 🌙, and are ever intent upon Nibbana 🕊️ - their defilements fade away.
- O Atula! Indeed, this is an ancient practice, not one only of today: they blame those who remain silent, they blame those speak much, they blame those who speak in moderation. There is none in the world who is not blamed.
- There never was, there never will be, nor is there now, a person who is wholly blamed or wholly praised.
- But the man whom the wise praise 🫡, after observing him day after day 📆, is one of flawless character 🤍, wise 🧠, and endowed with knowledge 📕 and virtue 🔆.
- Who can blame such a one, as worthy as a coin of refined gold? Even the gods praise him; by Brahma, too, is he praised.
- Let a man guard himself against irritability in 🛡️ bodily action; let him be controlled in deed. Abandoning bodily misconduct, let him practice good conduct in deed.
- Let a man guard himself against irritability in 🛡️ speech; let him be controlled in speech. Abandoning verbal misconduct, let him practice good conduct in speech.
- Let a man guard himself against irritability in 🛡️ thought; let him be controlled in mind. Abandoning mental misconduct, let him practice good conduct in thought.
- The wise are controlled in bodily action 🧍♂️, controlled in speech 🗣️ and controlled in thought 💭. They are truly well-controlled.
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Chapter 17:231-234