FastSaying

As a lotus flower is born in water, grows in water and rises out of water to stand above it unsoiled, so I, born in the world, raised in the world having overcome the world, live unsoiled by the world

Buddha

Related Quotes

Virtue practiced to be seen is not real virtue; vice which fears to be seen is real vice
— Chinese Proverbs
ViceVirtueVirtue And Vice
The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.
— Buddha
Virtue
Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice
— Joseph Joubert
ViceVirtue
Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
— Hosea Ballou
ViceVirtue
Any virtue taken to the extreme becomes a vice; unfortunately it doesn't work the other way.
— Jim Genovese
ViceVirtue