— The Dhammapada, verse 99 (tr. F. Max Müller, 1881)
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This is verse 99 of the Dhammapada, from the chapter called The Venerable — the portrait of the perfected one whose senses are stilled.
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.
