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Dhammapada · Chapter 8: The Thousands

Dhammapada 8.108

translated from Pāli by F. Max Müller, 1881

Whatever a man sacrifice in this world as an offering or as an oblation for a whole year in order to gain merit, the whole of it is not worth a quarter (a farthing); reverence shown to the righteous is better.

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