Ten Precepts

Ten Precepts may refer to:

  • The Buddhist Ten Precepts
  • Ten Precepts (Taoism)


Famous quotes containing the words ten and/or precepts:

    “Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred.”
    —Korean proverb, quoted in Alan L. Mackay, The Harvest of a Quiet Eye (1977)

    “The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.”
    —Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910)