Thag 1.73 — Māṇava

English translation by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu.

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Thag 1:73 Māṇava

On seeing an old person;
  &
a person in pain, diseased;
  &
a person dead, gone to life’s end,
  I left
for the life gone forth,
  abandoning the sensuality
  that entices the heart.