Mahavira

Patience is the highest form of virtue.

The greatest wealth is health.

Do not kill. Do not lie. Do not steal. Do not be unchaste. Do not possess anything.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the supreme abode.

All living beings desire to live.

Look at the world in the way it is, and do not try to rearrange it to suit your desires.

One who is always striving for the welfare of all beings, who is free from all passions, and who has attained the highest knowledge, is called a Tirthankara.

The soul is the perceiver, the knower, the agent, the enjoyer, and the sufferer.

Have compassion towards all living beings. Hatred leads to destruction.

The greatest penance is to bear all sufferings cheerfully.

Control of the senses is the highest form of self-control.

He who neglects the present moment, loses both future and past.

Truth is the very nature of the soul.

By sincerity, a man gains knowledge, by knowledge, liberation.

The soul is pure and eternal. It is never born, nor does it ever die.

The path of purification is the path of non-violence, self-control, and penance.

Man's true nature is divine.

All souls are alike in nature, and all souls are potentially alike in development.

The world is full of suffering. The cause of suffering is attachment. The cessation of suffering is detachment.

The universe is a beginningless and endless cycle of creation and destruction.