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Dhammapada · Chapter 17: Anger

Dhammapada 17.227

translated from Pāli by F. Max Müller, 1881

This is an old saying, O Atula, this is not only of to-day: `They blame him who sits silent, they blame him who speaks much, they also blame him who says little; there is no one on earth who is not blamed.’

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