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Dhammapada · Chapter 22: The Downward Course

Dhammapada 22.310

translated from Pāli by F. Max Müller, 1881

There is bad reputation, and the evil way (to hell), there is the short pleasure of the frightened in the arms of the frightened, and the king imposes heavy punishment; therefore let no man think of his neighbour’s wife.

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