Behold now, Bhikkhus, I exhort you: All compounded things are subject to decay. Strive with diligence!
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Last words, as quoted in DN 16; Mahaparinibbana Sutta 6:8
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Mendicants, I now impress it upon you, the parts and powers of man must be dissolved; work out your own salvation with diligence.
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As quoted in Present Day Tracts on the Non-Christian Religions of the World (1887) by Sir William Muir, p. 24Gautama Buddha
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Behold now, bhikkhus, I exhort you: All compounded things are subject to vanish. Strive with earnestness!
Gautama Buddha
Now, then, monks, I exhort you: All fabrications are subject to decay. Bring about completion by being heedful.
Gautama Buddha
All things are subject to decay and change...
Polybius
All human things are subject to decay,
And, when fate summons, monarchs must obey.John Dryden
…it must be plain also that we should not anxiously strive for riches and honors by relying on our own diligence or cleverness or by depending on the favor of men or by trusting in the notion of good luck, but that we should always expect the Lord to direct us to the lot he has provided for us.
John Calvin
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