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Dhammapada · Chapter 22: The Downward Course

Dhammapada 22.315

translated from Pāli by F. Max Müller, 1881

Like a well-guarded frontier fort, with defences within and without, so let a man guard himself. Not a moment should escape, for they who allow the right moment to pass, suffer pain when they are in hell.

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