[826]
If you mistake fleeting happiness
as the only possibility,
you will never attain lasting happiness
despite its possibility.
[827]
The legal is not always the moral.
The moral is not always the legal.
合法不一定如法。
如法不一定合法。
[828]
To obstruct or distort spread of truth
for selfish gain is
to break the Fourth Precept
of respect for truth.
[829]
To avoid complacence,
challenge complacence.
[830]
If you keep thinking
you can do better,
you might do better.
If you keep thinking
you have done your best,
you will never do better.
[831]
Those who idealise the demonic
and demonise the ideal
become demonic too.
[832]
A strength with weakness
is not a true strength.
A weakness with strength
is not a true weakness.
[833]
Evils, even if small,
grow if uncurbed.
Good, even if much,
shrivel if unnurtured.
[834]
The true danger is
not being physically endangered
but being spiritually challenged.
[835]
Unlearn senseless discrimination.
Relearn universal compassion.
