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Suttanipata 3.8.18.5

Suttanipāta 3.8.18.5

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3.8.18.5

Khippamuppatitaṃ sokaṃ,

As a house on fire is extinguished by water, so also the wise, sensible, learned, clever man rapidly drives away sorrow that has arisen, as the wind a tuft of cotton. (591)

Viggo Fausbøll 1881, The Sutta-Nipāta (Sacred Books of the East 10.2)

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