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Dhammapada · 20.14

Idha vassaṃ vasissāmi, idha hemantagimhisu;Iti bālo vicinteti, antarāyaṃ na bujjhati.

Idha vassam vasissami, idha hemantagimhisu; Iti balo vicinteti, antarayam na bujjhati.

'Here I shall dwell in the rains; here in the winter and summer' — thus the fool thinks. He does not understand the danger.

— Dhammapada 20.14

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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