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Dhammapada · 26.24

Aviruddhaṃ viruddhesu, attadaṇḍesu nibbutaṃ;Sādānesu anādānaṃ, tamahaṃ brūmi brāhmaṇaṃ.

Aviruddham viruddhesu, attadandesu nibbutam; Sadanesu anadanam, tamaham brumi brahmanam.

The one who is friendly among the hostile, peaceful among the violent, ungrasping among the grasping — him I call a brahmin.

— Dhammapada 26.24

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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