Iti 25Lying
Pāli / Sanskrit:Musāvādasutta
A person who tells a deliberate lie is capable of any evil deed.
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– So It Was Said 25
The Book of the Ones Chapter Three Lying
This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard.
“Mendicants, for an individual person who transgresses in one thing, there is no bad deed they would not do, I say. What one thing? It is this: telling a deliberate lie.”
The Buddha spoke this matter. On this it is said:
This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard.
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