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Dhammapada · Chapter 18: Impurity

Dhammapada 18.252

translated from Pāli by F. Max Müller, 1881

The fault of others is easily perceived, but that of oneself is difficult to perceive; a man winnows his neighbour’s faults like chaff, but his own fault he hides, as a cheat hides the bad die from the gambler.

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