Dhammapada · Verse 113

Paṭācārātherīvatthu

Pali

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

English

Better to live a single day
seeing rise and fall
than to live a hundred years
blind to rise and fall.

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