The Suttanipata Quotes

“For he is a conqueror who is himself unconquered;”
― Bhikkhu Bodhi, The Suttanipata: An Ancient Collection of the Buddha's Discourses Together with Its Commentaries

“Attachments to views are not easily overcome; having decided among teachings, one tightly grasps [a view]. Therefore, among those bases of attachment, a person rejects and takes up a teaching. (6) 786. One who is cleansed formulates no view anywhere in the world about various states of existence. Having abandoned hypocrisy and conceit, through what would the cleansed one go [astray]194 when he is uninvolved? (7) 787. One involved is embroiled in disputes about teachings; but how, about what, could one dispute with one uninvolved? Nothing is taken up or rejected by him; he has shaken off all views right here.”
― Bhikkhu Bodhi, The Suttanipata: An Ancient Collection of the Buddha's Discourses Together with Its Commentaries

“Having abandoned past influxes, not creating new ones, he does not go along with desire, nor is he a dogmatist. Released from speculative views, the wise person, free of self-reproach, is not tainted by the world. (19) 914. “He is remote from all phenomena, from whatever is seen, heard, or sensed. With his burden dropped, released,214 the muni, not given to mental construction, does not desist, does not yearn” — so said the Blessed One. (20) [179]”
― Bhikkhu Bodhi, The Suttanipata: An Ancient Collection of the Buddha's Discourses Together with Its Commentaries

“Devoid of greed, without miserliness, the muni does not speak [of himself] as among superiors, or equals, or inferiors. Not given to mental construction, he does not enter upon mental constructs. (13) 861. “One who takes nothing in the world as his own, and who does not sorrow over what is absent, who does not enter upon things: he is truly said to be ‘peaceful.”
― Bhikkhu Bodhi, The Suttanipata: An Ancient Collection of the Buddha's Discourses Together with Its Commentaries