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PTS edition (von Hinüber & Norman 1994) 80

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Pāli

80

udakaṃ hi nayanti nettikā usukārā namayanti tejanaṃ /
dāruṃ namayanti tacchakā attānaṃ damayanti paṇḍitā. //

Well-makers lead the water (wherever they like); fletchers bend the arrow; carpenters bend a log of wood; wise people fashion themselves.
[78. It is hardly possible to take mitte kalyâne in the technical sense of kalyâna-mitra, 'ein geistlicher Rath,' a spiritual guide. Burnouf (Introd. p. 284) shows that in the technical sense kalyâna-mitra was widely spread in the Buddhist world.

Friedrich Max Müller 1881, The Dhammapada (Sacred Books of the East 10.1)

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