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Dhammapada 290: 21. Miscellaneous

Dhammapada 290

Language
Pāli

290

Mattāsukhapariccāgā,
passe ce vipulaṃ sukhaṃ;
Caje mattāsukhaṃ dhīro,
sampassaṃ vipulaṃ sukhaṃ.

If by leaving a small pleasure one sees a great pleasure, let a wise man leave the small pleasure, and look to the great.

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

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