… While there are no stirrings of pleasure, anger, sorrow, or joy, the mind may be said to be in the state of Equilibrium. When those feelings have been stirred, and they act in their due degree, there ensues what may be called the state of Harmony. …
喜怒哀樂之未發，謂之中；發而皆中節，謂之和；
Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
As a solid rock is not shaken by the wind, wise people falter not amidst blame and praise.
He used to say, If I am not for myself who is for me? and being for my own self what am I? If not now when?
See the brotherhood of all mankind as the highest order of Yogis; conquer your own mind, and conquer the world.
To a monk who has left his sons and wives, and who has ceased to act, nothing pleasant can occur, nor anything unpleasant.
O ye who believe! Fasting is prescribed to you as it was prescribed to those before you, that ye may (learn) self-restraint,-
He through whom the world is not agitated, and who is not agitated by the world, who is free from joy and anger and fear and agitation, he too is dear to me.
Eat in proportion to thy hunger; how can he give praises who scarce can breathe by reason of his gluttony? He whose stomach is full is void of wisdom. The prey is entrapped in the snare because of its greed. …
There is the great Mass (of nature);--I find the support of my body on it; my life is spent in toil on it; my old age seeks ease on it; at death I find rest in it;--what makes my life a good makes my death also a good. …