PERCEPTIONS AND NOTIONS
Bhikkhus, as to the source through which perceptions and notions tinged by mental proliferation beset a man: if nothing is found there to delight in, welcome, and hold to … this is the end of resorting to rods and weapons, of quarrels, brawls, disputes, recrimination, malice, and false speech; there these evil unwholesome states cease without remainder…
— Majjhima Nikāya 18