The Dhammapada

If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.

Good people shine from afar, like the snowy mountains; bad people are not seen, like arrows shot by night.

Even in heavenly pleasures he finds no satisfaction, the disciple who is fully awakened delights only in the destruction of all desires.

Self is the lord of self, who else could be the lord? With self well subdued, a man finds a lord such as few can find

Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.

As rain breaks through an ill-thatched house, passion will break through an unreflecting mind.

this is the Noble Truth as to suffering. Birth is attended with pain, decay is painful, disease is painful, death is painful. Union with the unpleasant is painful, painful is separation from the pleasant; and any craving unsatisfied, that too is painful.

Right Views, Right Aspirations, Right Speech, Right Conduct, Right Mode of Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, and Right Rapture.

Middle Path discovered by the Tathāgata—a path which opens the eyes, and bestows understanding, which leads to peace, to insight, to the higher wisdom, to Nirvāna.

the practice on the other hand of asceticism, which is painful, ignoble, unprofitable.