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Dhammapada · Chapter 12: Self

Dhammapada 12.159

translated from Pāli by F. Max Müller, 1881

If a man make himself as he teaches others to be, then, being himself well subdued, he may subdue (others); one’s own self is indeed difficult to subdue.

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