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Dhammapada 5.4.63

Dhammapadaṭṭhakathā 5.4.63

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5.4.63

‘‘Yo bālo maññati bālyaṃ, paṇḍito vāpi tena so;
Bālo ca paṇḍitamānī, sa ve ‘bālo’ti vuccatī’’ti.

63. The fool who thinks he is a fool is for that very reason a wise man;
But the fool who thinks he is a wise man is rightly called a fool.

Eugene Watson Burlingame 1921, Buddhist Legends (Harvard Oriental Series 28–30)

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