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“By rousing himself, by earnestness, by restraint and control, the wise man may make for himself an island which no flood can overwhelm.
— Dhammapada, verse 25 – tr. F. Max Müller (1881)
Dhammapada, verse 25 – tr. F. Max Müller (1881)
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