LIBERTY INFINITY

54. The scent of flowers does not travel against the wind, nor (that
of) sandal-wood, or of Tagara and Mallika flowers; but the odour of
good people travels even against the wind; a good man pervades every
place.

53. As many kinds of wreaths can be made from a heap of flowers, so
many good things may be achieved by a mortal when once he is born. DHAMMAPADA

52. But, like a beautiful flower, full of colour and full of scent,
are the fine and fruitful words of him who acts accordingly. DHAMMAPADA, BUDDHISM

50. Not the perversities of others, not their sins of commission or
omission, but his own misdeeds and negligences should a sage take
notice of. DHAMMAPADA, BUDDHISM

51. Like a beautiful flower, full of colour, but without scent, are
the fine but fruitless words of him who does not act accordingly. DHAMMAPADA, BUDDHISM

49. As the bee collects nectar and departs without injuring the
flower, or its colour or scent, so let a sage dwell in his village. DHAMMAPADA, BUDDHISM

48. Death subdues a man who is gathering flowers, and whose mind is
distracted, before he is satiated in his pleasures. DHAMMAPADA, BUDDHISM

47. Death carries off a man who is gathering flowers and whose mind is
distracted, as a flood carries off a sleeping village. DHAMMAPADA, BUDDHISM

46. He who knows that this body is like froth, and has learnt that it
is as unsubstantial as a mirage, will break the flower-pointed arrow
of Mara, and never see the king of death. DHAMMAPADA, BUDDHISM