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Dhammapada · 11.1

Ko nu hāso kimānando, niccaṃ pajjalite sati;Andhakārena onaddhā, padīpaṃ na gavessatha.

Ko nu haso kimanando, niccam pajjalite sati; Andhakarena onaddha, padipam na gavessatha.

What is this laughter, what this joy, when the world is forever ablaze? Enveloped in darkness, will you not seek a light?

— Dhammapada 11.1

Source: Pali text from the Khuddaka Nikāya of the Pali Canon (oldest extant Buddhist scripture, compiled c. 3rd century BCE). Public-domain English readings drawn from F. Max Müller's translation in Sacred Books of the East, Vol X (1881) and the Buddhist Publication Society's freely-licensed Acharya Buddharakkhita rendering.

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