Though a man with a sharp sword should cut one's body bit by bit, let not an angry thought ... arise, let the mouth speak no ill word.—Fo-sho-hing-tsan-king.
Them who became thy murderers, thou forgavest.—Lalita Vistara.
Overcome evil by good.—Udanavarga.
Conquer your foe by force, and you increase his enmity; conquer by love, and you reap no after-sorrow.—Fo-sho-hing-tsan-king.
This great principle of returning good for evil.—Sutra of Forty-two Sections.
The member of Buddha's order ... should not intentionally destroy the life of any being, down even to a worm or an ant.—Mahavagga.
Whether now any man kill with his own hand, or command any other to kill, or whether he only see with pleasure the act of killing—all is equally forbidden by this law.—Sha-mi-lu-i-yao-lio.
My teaching is this, that the slightest act of charity, even in the lowest class of persons, such as saving the life of an insect out of pity, that this act ... shall bring to the doer of it consequent benefit.—T'sa-ho-hom-king.
He came to remove the sorrows of all living things.—Fo-sho-hing-tsan-king.
"Now (said he) I will see a noble law, unlike the worldly methods known to men, ... and will fight against the chief wrought upon man by sickness, age, and death."—Fo-sho-hing-tsan-king.