Dhammapada · Verse 114

Kisāgotamīvatthu

Pali

Yo ca vassasataṁ jīve,
apassaṁ amataṁ padaṁ;
Ekāhaṁ jīvitaṁ seyyo,
passato amataṁ padaṁ.

English

Better to live a single day
seeing the state free of death
than to live a hundred years
blind to the state free of death.

License: English CC0 (Bhikkhu Sujato); Pali public domain. Source: SuttaCentral (sc-data).