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Dhammapada · Chapter 5: The Fool

Dhammapada 5.62

translated from Pāli by F. Max Müller, 1881

“These sons belong to me, and this wealth belongs to me,” with such thoughts a fool is tormented. He himself does not belong to himself; how much less sons and wealth?

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