Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

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This is verse 224 of the Dhammapada, from the chapter called Anger — the mastery of anger in body, speech and mind; overcoming anger by love.

The Dhammapada is a collection of 423 verses in Pali, among the oldest and most widely read records of the Buddha’s teaching. This English translation is by F. Max Müller (1881), the pioneering Oxford scholar of Indian texts; the verse number is cited with this quote.