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Dhammapada · Chapter 24: Thirst

Dhammapada 24.355

translated from Pāli by F. Max Müller, 1881

Pleasures destroy the foolish, if they look not for the other shore; the foolish by his thirst for pleasures destroys himself, as if he were his own enemy.

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