This salutary word I tell you, `Do ye, as many as are here assembled, dig up the root of thirst, as he who wants the sweet-scented Usira root must dig up the Birana grass, that Mara (the tempter) may not crush you again and again, as the stream crushes the reeds.'Dhp 24.337 · Dhammapada · Thirst
Dhp 24.337
Dhammapada · translated by F. Max Muller
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Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:James 1:13 · Bible · James
Of them is he who saith: Grant me leave (to stay at home) and tempt me not. Surely it is into temptation that they (thus) have fallen. Lo! hell verily is all around the disbelievers.Quran 9:49 · Quran · Repentance
THE TRIAL OF THE ARMY, AND CATALOGUE OF THE FORCES.Iliad 2.1 · Iliad · 2
THE TRIAL OF THE AXES, DURING WHICH ULYSSES REVEALS HIMSELF TO EUMAEUS AND PHILOETIUSOdyssey 21.1 · Odyssey · 21
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