— The Dhammapada, verse 85 (tr. F. Max Müller, 1881)
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This is verse 85 of the Dhammapada, from the chapter called The Wise Man — the company of the wise, unshaken as rock by blame or praise.
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.
