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# Verses on Dhamma 6.8.83

Dhammapadaṭṭhakathā 6.8.83

- **Language:** Pāli

### [6.8.83](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada!dhammapadatthakatha.6.8.83)

‘‘Sabbattha ve sappurisā cajanti,  
Na kāmakāmā lapayanti santo;  
Sukhena phuṭṭhā atha vā dukhena,  
Na uccāvacaṃ paṇḍitā dassayantī’’ti.

> 83. Everywhere good men practice renunciation; good men talk not as if given to sensual pleasure;  
> Wise men, touched either by happiness or by sorrow, show no change.  
> — Eugene Watson Burlingame 1921, Buddhist Legends (Harvard Oriental Series 28–30)

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## Translations (1)

- [Buddhist Legends (Harvard Oriental Series 28–30)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada!dhammapadatthakatha~en-burlingame.6.8.p11) — Eugene Watson Burlingame 1921, English

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