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- For only he that pities is truly able to be brave; (en)
- Guard and keep them! (en)
- Here are my three treasures. (en)
- Is truly able to become chief of all Ministers. (en)
- Only he that is frugal is able to be profuse. (en)
- Only he that refuses to be foremost of all things (en)
- At present your bravery is not based on pity, nor your profusion on frugality, nor your vanguard on your rear; and this is death. (en)
- Once, the Buddha mentioned to some monks that his lay disciple Hatthaka had seven wonderful and marvellous qualities; these being faith, virtue, propriety, self-respect, learning, generosity and wisdom. Later, when Hatthaka learned how the Buddha had praised him he commented: 'I hope there were no laypeople around at the time'. When this comment was reported back to the Buddha, he remarked: "Good! Very good! He is genuinely modest and does not want his good qualities to be known to others. So you can truly say that Hatthaka is adorned with this eighth wonderful and marvellous quality 'modesty'." (en)
- *Make contentment your ear-rings, humility your begging bowl, and meditation the ashes you apply to your body.
* Listening and believing with love and humility in your mind.
* In the realm of humility, the Word is Beauty.
* Modesty, humility and intuitive understanding are my mother-in-law and father-in-law. (en)
- Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.
In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:
Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;
rather, he made himself nothing
by taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
by becoming obedient to death—
even death on a cross! (en)
- The first is pity; the second, frugality; the third, refusal to be "foremost of all things under heaven". (en)
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