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Dhammapada · Chapter 23: The Elephant

Dhammapada 23.329

translated from Pāli by F. Max Müller, 1881

If a man find no prudent companion who walks with him, is wise, and lives soberly, let him walk alone, like a king who has left his conquered country behind,—like an elephant in the forest.

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