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Dhammapada · Chapter 2: On Earnestness

Dhammapada 2.21

translated from Pāli by F. Max Müller, 1881

Earnestness is the path of immortality (Nirvana), thoughtlessness the path of death. Those who are in earnest do not die, those who are thoughtless are as if dead already.

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