Verse 264
na muṇḍakena samaṇo, abbato alikaṃ bhaṇaṃ.
icchālobhasamāpanno, samaṇo kiṃ bhavissati.

Verse 265
yo ca sameti pāpāni, aṇuṃ thūlāni sabbaso.
samitattā hi pāpānaṃ, “samaṇo”ti pavuccati.

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Verse 262
na vākkaraṇamattena, vaṇṇapokkharatāya vā.
sādhurūpo naro hoti, issukī maccharī saṭho.

Verse 263
yassa cetaṃ samucchinnaṃ, mūlaghaccaṃ samūhataṃ.
sa vantadoso medhāvī, “sādhurūpo”ti vuccati.

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Verse 249
People give according to their faith or regard. If one becomes discontented with the food and drink given by others, one does not attain meditative absorption, either by day or by night.

Verse 250
But he in who this (discontent) is fully destroyed, uprooted and extinct, he attains absorption, both by day and by night.

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Verse 246 & 247
One who destroys life, utters lies, takes what is not given, goes to another man’s wife, and is addicted to intoxicating drinks—such a man digs up his own root even in this world.

Verse 248
Know this, O good man: evil things are difficult to control. Let not greed and wickedness drag you to protracted misery.

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Verse 244
Easy is life for the shameless one who is impudent as a crow, is backbiting and forward, arrogant and corrupt.

Verse 245
Difficult is life for the modest one who always seeks purity, is detached and unassuming, clean in life, and discerning.

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Verse 242
Unchastity is the taint in a woman; niggardliness is the taint in a giver. Taints, indeed, are all evil things, both in this world and the next.

Verse 243
A worse taint than these is ignorance, the worst of all taints. Destroy this one taint and become taintless, O monks!

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Verse 241
Non-repetition is the bane of scriptures; neglect is the bane of a home; slovenliness is the bane of personal appearance, and heedlessness is the bane of a guard.

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Verse 240
Just as rust arising from iron eats away the base from which it arises, even so, their own deeds lead transgressors to states of woe.

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Verse 239
One by one, little by little, moment by moment, a wise man should remove his own impurities, as a smith removes his dross from silver.

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Verse 235
Like a withered leaf are you now; death’s messengers await you. You stand on the eve of your departure, yet you have made no provision for your journey!

Verse 236
Make an island for yourself! Strive hard and become wise! Rid of impurities and cleansed of stain, you shall enter the celestial abode of the Noble Ones.

Verse 237
Your life has come to an end now; You are setting forth into the presence of Yama, the king of death. No resting place is there for you on the way, yet you have made no provision for the journey!

Verse 238
Make an island unto yourself! Strive hard and become wise! Rid of impurities and cleansed of stain, you shall not come again to birth and decay.

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Verse 260
A monk is not an elder because his head is gray. He is but ripe in age, and he is called one grown old in vain.

Verse 261
One in whom there is truthfulness, virtue, inoffensiveness, restraint and self-mastery, who is free from defilements and is wise—he is truly called an Elder.

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Verse 259

Verse 259
A man is not versed in Dhamma because he speaks much. He who, after hearing a little Dhamma, realizes its truth directly and is not heedless of it, is truly versed in the Dhamma.
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Verse 258
One is not wise because one speaks much. He who is peaceable, friendly and fearless is called wise.

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"Verse 256
Not by passing arbitrary judgments does a man become just; a wise man is he who investigates both right and wrong.

Verse 257
He who does not judge others arbitrarily, but passes judgment impartially according to the truth, that sagacious man is a guardian of law and is called just.

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"Verse 254
There is no track in the sky, and no recluse outside (the Buddha’s dispensation). Mankind delights in worldliness, but the Buddhas are free from worldliness.

Verse 255
There is no track in the sky, and no recluse outside (the Buddha’s dispensation). There are no conditioned things that are eternal, and no instability in the Buddhas.

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Verse 253
He who seeks another’s faults, who is ever censorious—his cankers grow. He is far from destruction of the cankers.

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Verse 252
Easily seen is the fault of others, but one’s own fault is difficult to see. Like chaff one winnows another’s faults, but hides one’s own, even as a crafty fowler hides behind sham branches.

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Verse 251
There is no fire like lust; there is no grip like hatred; there is no net like delusion; there is no river like craving.

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Verse 266
He is not a monk just because he lives on others’ alms. Not by adopting outward form does one become a true monk.

Verse 267
Whoever here (in the Dispensation) lives a holy life, transcending both merit and demerit, and walks with understanding in this world—he is truly called a monk.

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Verse 268
Not by observing silence does one become a sage, if he be foolish and ignorant. But that man is wise who, as if holding a balance-scale accepts only the good.

Verse 269
The sage (thus) rejecting the evil, is truly a sage. Since he comprehends both (present and future) worlds, he is called a sage.

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Verse 270
He is not noble who injures living beings. He is called noble because he is harmless towards all living beings.

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Verse 271 & 272
Not by rules and observances, not even by much learning, nor by gain of absorption, nor by a life of seclusion, nor by thinking, “I enjoy the bliss of renunciation, which is not experienced by the worldling” should you, O monks, rest content, until the utter destruction of cankers (Arahantship) is reached.
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Verse 273
Of all the paths the Eightfold Path is the best; of all the truths the Four Noble Truths are the best; of all things passionlessness is the best: of men the Seeing One (the Buddha) is the best.

Verse 274
This is the only path; there is none other for the purification of insight. Tread this path, and you will bewilder Mara.

Verse 275
Walking upon this path you will make an end of suffering. Having discovered how to pull out the thorn of lust, I make known the path.

Verse 276
You yourselves must strive; the Buddhas only point the way. Those meditative ones who tread the path are released from the bonds of Mara.

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Verse 277
“All conditioned things are impermanent”—when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering. This is the path to purification.

Verse 278
“All conditioned things are unsatisfactory”—when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering. This is the path to purification.

Verse 279
“All things are not-self”—when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering. This is the path to purification.

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Verse 280
The idler who does not exert himself when he should, who though young and strong is full of sloth, with a mind full of vain thoughts—such an indolent man does not find the path to wisdom

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Verse 281
Let a man be watchful of speech, well controlled in mind, and not commit evil in bodily action. Let him purify these three courses of action, and win the path made known by the Great Sage.

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Verse 282
Wisdom springs from meditation; without meditation wisdom wanes. Having known these two paths of progress and decline, let a man so conduct himself that his wisdom may increase.

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Verse 283
Cut down the forest (lust), but not the tree; from the forest springs fear. Having cut down the forest and the underbrush (desire), be passionless, O monks!

Verse 284
For so long as the underbrush of desire, even the most subtle, of a man towards a woman is not cut down, his mind is in bondage, like the sucking calf to its mother.

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Verse 286
“Here shall I live during the rains, here in winter and summer”—thus thinks the fool. He does not realize the danger (that death might intervene).

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Verse 285
Cut off your affection in the manner of a man who plucks with his hand an autumn lotus. Cultivate only the path to peace, Nibbana, as made known by the Exalted One.

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Verse 287
As a great flood carries away a sleeping village, so death seizes and carries away the man with a clinging mind, doting on his children and cattle.

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Verse 288
For him who is assailed by death there is no protection by kinsmen. None there are to save him—no sons, nor father, nor relatives.

Verse 289
Realizing this fact, let the wise man, restrained by morality, hasten to clear the path leading to Nibbana.

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Verse 290
If by renouncing a lesser happiness one may realize a greater happiness, let the wise man renounce the lesser, having regard for the greater.

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Verse 291
Entangled by the bonds of hate, he who seeks his own happiness by inflicting pain on others, is never delivered from hatred.

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Verse 292
The cankers only increase for those who are arrogant and heedless, who leave undone what should be done and do what should not be done.

Verse 293
The cankers cease for those mindful and clearly comprehending ones who always earnestly practice mindfulness of the body, who do not resort to what should not be done, and steadfastly pursue what should be done.

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Verse 294
Having slain mother (craving), father (self-conceit), two warrior-kings (eternalism and nihilism), and destroyed a country (sense organs and sense objects) together with its treasurer (attachment and lust), ungrieving goes the holy man.

Verse 295
Having slain mother, father, two brahman kings (two extreme views), and a tiger as the fifth (the five mental hindrances), ungrieving goes the holy man.

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Verse 296
Those disciples of Gotama ever awaken happily who day and night constantly practice the Recollection of the Qualities of the Buddha.

Verse 297
Those disciples of Gotama ever awaken happily who day and night constantly practice the Recollection of the Qualities of the Dhamma.

Verse 298
Those disciples of Gotama ever awaken happily who day and night constantly practice the Recollection of the Qualities of the Sangha.

Verse 299
Those disciples of Gotama ever awaken happily who day and night constantly practice Mindfulness of the Body.

Verse 300
Those disciples of Gotama ever awaken happily whose minds by day and night delight in the practice of non-violence.

Verse 301
Those disciples of Gotama ever awaken happily whose minds by day and night delight in the practice of meditation.

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Verse 302
Difficult is life as a monk; difficult is it to delight therein. Also difficult and sorrowful is the household life. Suffering comes from association with unequals; suffering comes from wandering in samsara. Therefore, be not an aimless wanderer, be not a pursuer of suffering.

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Verse 303
He who is full of faith and virtue, and possesses good repute and wealth—he is respected everywhere, in whatever land he travels.

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Verse 304
The good shine from afar, like the Himalaya mountains. But the wicked are unseen, like arrows shot in the night.

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Verse 305
He who sits alone, sleeps alone, and walks alone, who is strenuous and subdues himself alone, will find delight in the solitude of the forest.

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Verse 306
The liar goes to the state of woe; also he who, having done (wrong), says, “I did not do it.” Men of base actions both, on departing they share the same destiny in the other world.

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Verse 308
It would be better to swallow a red-hot iron ball, blazing like fire, than as an immoral and uncontrolled monk to eat the alms of the people.

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Verse 307
There are many evil characters and uncontrolled men wearing the saffron robe. These wicked men will be born in states of woe because of their evil deeds.

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Verse 309
Four misfortunes befall the reckless man who consorts with another’s wife: acquisition of demerit, disturbed sleep, ill-repute, and (rebirth in) states of woe.

Verse 310
Such a man acquires demerit and an unhappy birth in the future. Brief is the pleasure of the frightened man and woman, and the king imposes heavy punishment. Hence, let no man consort with another’s wife.

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Verse 314
An evil deed is better left undone, for such a deed torments one afterwards. But a good deed is better done, doing which one repents not later.

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Verse 311
Just as kusa grass wrongly handled cuts the hand, even so, a recluse’s life wrongly lived drags one to states of woe.

Verse 312
Any loose act, any corrupt observance, any life of questionable celibacy—none of these bear much fruit.

Verse 313
If anything is to be done, let one do it with sustained vigor. A lax monastic life stirs up the dust of passions all the more.

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Verse 315
Just as a border city is closely guarded both within and without, even so, guard yourself. Do not let slip this opportunity (for spiritual growth). For those who let slip this opportunity grieve indeed when consigned to hell.

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Verse 316
Those who are ashamed of what they should not be ashamed of, and are not ashamed of what they should be ashamed of—upholding false views, they go to states of woe.

Verse 317
Those who see something to fear where there is nothing to fear, and see nothing to fear where there is something to fear—upholding false views, they go to states of woe.

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Verse 318
Those who imagine evil where there is none, and do not see evil where it is—upholding false views, they go to states of woe

Verse 319
Those who discern the wrong as wrong and the right as right—upholding right views, they go to realms of bliss.

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Translations from: https://suttacentral.net/dhp306-319/en/buddharakkhita#318