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Dhammapada 71

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Pāli

71

Na hi pāpaṃ kataṃ kammaṃ,
Sajjukhīraṃva muccati;
Ḍahantaṃ bālamanveti,
Bhasmacchannova pāvako.

An evil deed, like newly-drawn milk, does not turn (suddenly); smouldering, like fire covered by ashes, it follows the fool.
[67. See Beal, l.c. p. 78.

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

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