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Dhammapada · Chapter 10: Punishment

Dhammapada 10.133

translated from Pāli by F. Max Müller, 1881

Do not speak harshly to anybody; those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful, blows for blows will touch thee.

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