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Dhammapada 48

Dhammapada 48

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Pāli

48

Pupphāni heva pacinantaṃ,
byāsattamanasaṃ naraṃ;
Atittaññeva kāmesu,
antako kurute vasaṃ.

Death subdues a man who is gathering flowers, and whose mind is distracted, before he is satiated in his pleasures.

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

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