Buddhism has its Five Commandments, certainly equal in value to the Ten
Commandments of Jews and Christians:--

"First. Thou shall abstain from destroying or causing the destruction of
any living thing.

"Second. Thou shalt abstain from acquiring or keeping, by fraud or
violence, the property of another.

"Third. Thou shalt abstain from those who are not proper objects for thy
lust.

"Fourth. Thou shalt abstain from deceiving others either by word or
deed.

"Fifth. Thou shalt abstain from intoxication" (Ibid, p. 57).

From Dr. Muir's translations of "religious and moral sentiments,"
already quoted from, we might fill page after page with purest morality.
"Let a man be virtuous even while yet a youth; for life is transitory.
If duty is performed, a good name will be obtained, as well as
happiness, here and after death" ("Mahabharata," xii., 6538, p. 22).
"Deluded by avarice, anger, fear, a man does not understand himself. He
plumes himself upon his high birth, contemning those who are not
well-born; and overcome by the pride of wealth, he reviles the poor. He
calls others fools, and does not look to himself. He blames the faults
of others, but does not govern himself. When the wise and the foolish,
the rich and the poor, the noble and the ignoble, the proud and the
humble, have departed to the cemetery and all sleep there, their
troubles are at an end, and their bodies are stripped of flesh, little