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Dhammapada · Chapter 16: Pleasure

Dhammapada 16.209

translated from Pāli by F. Max Müller, 1881

He who gives himself to vanity, and does not give himself to meditation, forgetting the real aim (of life) and grasping at pleasure, will in time envy him who has exerted himself in meditation.

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