— The Dhammapada, verse 201 (tr. F. Max Müller, 1881)
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This is verse 201 of the Dhammapada, from the chapter called Happiness — living happily without hatred among the hating, and the sweetness of solitude.
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.
