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The Dhammapada

Words attributed to Gautama Buddha

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  • What korrents draws from it

    What we are results from what we have thought; acting from an evil thought brings pain after it, Hatred never ceases through hatred; it ceases through love, Earnestness is the path to Nirvana and thoughtlessness the path of death …

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Key facts

Edition korrents quotes
tr. F. Max Müller, 18812
Claims on korrents
101

What korrents draws from it

korrents’ reading of claims quoted word for word from the book; each opens the quote and where it sits.

  1. What we are results from what we have thought; acting from an evil thought brings pain after it (opens korrents.com)1

  2. Hatred never ceases through hatred; it ceases through love (opens korrents.com)1

  3. Earnestness is the path to Nirvana and thoughtlessness the path of death (opens korrents.com)1

  4. Conquering oneself is a greater victory than conquering a million men in battle (opens korrents.com)1

  5. Do not take evil-doers or low people for friends; have the virtuous, the best of people, for friends (opens korrents.com)1

  6. Evil and purity are one's own doing; no one can purify another (opens korrents.com)1

Connections

Related

  • Gautama BuddhaThe words it records are attributed to them

Sources

  1. The Dhammapada, as preserved in the Pali canon (tr. F. Max Müller, 1881) (korrents) (opens korrents.com)
  2. The Dhammapada, as preserved in the Pali canon (tr. F. Max Müller, 1881) (gutenberg.org) (opens gutenberg.org)

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