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Dhammapada · Chapter 12: Self

Dhammapada 12.165

translated from Pāli by F. Max Müller, 1881

By oneself the evil is done, by oneself one suffers; by oneself evil is left undone, by oneself one is purified. Purity and impurity belong to oneself, no one can purify another.

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