{
  "dhp60:0.1": "Minor Collection ",
  "dhp60:0.2": "Sayings of the Dhamma 60–75 ",
  "dhp60:0.3": "5. The Fool ",
  "dhp60:0.4": "",
  "dhp60:1": "Long is the night for the wakeful; ",
  "dhp60:2": "long is the league for the weary; ",
  "dhp60:3": "long transmigrate the fools ",
  "dhp60:4": "who don’t understand the true teaching. ",
  "dhp61:0": "",
  "dhp61:1": "If while wandering you find no partner ",
  "dhp61:2": "equal or better than yourself, ",
  "dhp61:3": "then firmly resolve to wander alone—",
  "dhp61:4": "there’s no fellowship with fools. ",
  "dhp62:0": "",
  "dhp62:1": "“Sons are mine, wealth is mine”—",
  "dhp62:2": "thus the fool frets. ",
  "dhp62:3": "For even your self is not your own, ",
  "dhp62:4": "let alone your sons or wealth. ",
  "dhp63:0": "",
  "dhp63:1": "The fool who thinks they’re a fool ",
  "dhp63:2": "is wise at least to that extent. ",
  "dhp63:3": "But the true fool is said to be one ",
  "dhp63:4": "who imagines that they are wise. ",
  "dhp64:0": "",
  "dhp64:1": "Though a fool attends to the wise ",
  "dhp64:2": "even for the rest of their life, ",
  "dhp64:3": "they still don’t understand the teaching, ",
  "dhp64:4": "like a spoon the taste of the soup. ",
  "dhp65:0": "",
  "dhp65:1": "If a clever person attends to the wise ",
  "dhp65:2": "even just for an hour or so, ",
  "dhp65:3": "they swiftly understand the teaching, ",
  "dhp65:4": "like a tongue the taste of the soup. ",
  "dhp66:0": "",
  "dhp66:1": "Fools and simpletons behave ",
  "dhp66:2": "like their own worst enemies, ",
  "dhp66:3": "doing wicked deeds ",
  "dhp66:4": "that ripen as bitter fruit. ",
  "dhp67:0": "",
  "dhp67:1": "It’s not good to do a deed ",
  "dhp67:2": "that plagues you later on, ",
  "dhp67:3": "for which you weep and wail, ",
  "dhp67:4": "as its effect stays with you. ",
  "dhp68:0": "",
  "dhp68:1": "It is good to do a deed ",
  "dhp68:2": "that doesn’t plague you later on, ",
  "dhp68:3": "that gladdens and cheers, ",
  "dhp68:4": "as its effect stays with you. ",
  "dhp69:0": "",
  "dhp69:1": "The fool imagines that evil is sweet, ",
  "dhp69:2": "so long as it has not yet ripened. ",
  "dhp69:3": "But as soon as that evil ripens, ",
  "dhp69:4": "they fall into suffering. ",
  "dhp70:0": "",
  "dhp70:1": "Month after month a fool may eat ",
  "dhp70:2": "food from a grass-blade’s tip; ",
  "dhp70:3": "but they’ll never be worth a sixteenth part ",
  "dhp70:4": "of one who has appraised the teaching. ",
  "dhp71:0": "",
  "dhp71:1": "For a wicked deed that has been done ",
  "dhp71:2": "does not curdle quickly like milk. ",
  "dhp71:3": "Smoldering, it follows the fool, ",
  "dhp71:4": "like a fire smothered over with ash. ",
  "dhp72:0": "",
  "dhp72:1": "Whatever fame a fool may get, ",
  "dhp72:2": "it only gives rise to harm. ",
  "dhp72:3": "Whatever good features they have it ruins, ",
  "dhp72:4": "and blows their head into bits. ",
  "dhp73:0": "",
  "dhp73:1": "They’d seek the esteem that they lack, ",
  "dhp73:2": "and status among the mendicants; ",
  "dhp73:3": "authority over monasteries, ",
  "dhp73:4": "and honor among other families. ",
  "dhp74:1": "“Let both layfolk and renunciants think ",
  "dhp74:2": "the work was done by me alone. ",
  "dhp74:3": "In anything at all that’s to be done, ",
  "dhp74:4": "let them fall under my sway alone.” ",
  "dhp74:5": "So thinks the fool, ",
  "dhp74:6": "their greed and pride only growing. ",
  "dhp75:0": "",
  "dhp75:1": "For the means to profit and the path to quenching ",
  "dhp75:2": "are two quite different things. ",
  "dhp75:3": "A mendicant disciple of the Buddha, ",
  "dhp75:4": "understanding what this really means, ",
  "dhp75:5": "would never delight in honors, ",
  "dhp75:6": "but rather would foster seclusion. ",
  "dhp75:7": ""
}