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Dhammapada · Chapter 5: The Fool

Dhammapada 5.70

translated from Pāli by F. Max Müller, 1881

Let a fool month after month eat his food (like an ascetic) with the tip of a blade of Kusa grass, yet he is not worth the sixteenth particle of those who have well weighed the law.

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