Q0411

“Hatreds never cease through hatred in this world.” — Dhammapada (Dhammapada 5)

Verified English quotation. Primary source: Dhammapada 5. Theme: love.

English

Hatreds never cease through hatred in this world.
Thinker Dhammapada
School Early Buddhism
Source Dhammapada 5
Theme Love
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Source and attribution

The archive attributes this English wording to Dhammapada 5 and files it under Early Buddhism. That locator distinguishes the passage from loose internet attributions: readers can return to the named work or section to check translation, surrounding argument, and edition-specific wording.

About Dhammapada

Dhammapada appears in this archive through verified English quotations associated with the Early Buddhism tradition. Biographical certainty varies by figure and text; where the “author” is a scripture or school anthology, read the name as a traditional attribution rather than a modern individual biography.

How to read this passage

Greek distinctions among eros, philia, and agape, Confucian relational ethics, and modern debates about romantic love keep the theme philosophically precise rather than merely sentimental. This passage enters that discussion through love.

Concepts in this quote

Love
Love in philosophy ranges from friendship and desire to care, justice, and the transformation of the self.

How to cite this quotation

APA: Dhammapada. (n.d.). Hatreds never cease through hatred in this world. In Philosophy Blind Box. https://www.philosophydef.com/quotes/q0411

MLA: Dhammapada. “Hatreds never cease through hatred in this world..” Philosophy Blind Box, https://www.philosophydef.com/quotes/q0411.

Chicago: Dhammapada. “Hatreds never cease through hatred in this world..” Philosophy Blind Box. Accessed 2026. https://www.philosophydef.com/quotes/q0411.

Frequently asked questions

What is the source of the quotation “Hatreds never cease through hatred in this world.”?

The passage is attributed to Dhammapada, Dhammapada 5. The archive attributes this English wording to Dhammapada 5 and files it under Early Buddhism. That locator distinguishes the passage from loose internet attributions: readers can return to the named work or section to check translation, surrounding argument, and edition-specific wording.

What does Dhammapada mean by love?

Greek distinctions among eros, philia, and agape, Confucian relational ethics, and modern debates about romantic love keep the theme philosophically precise rather than merely sentimental. This passage enters that discussion through love.

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More from Dhammapada

  1. Mind precedes all mental states; mind is their chief; they are mind-made.
  2. Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is an eternal law.
  3. To avoid all evil, to cultivate the good, and to cleanse one's mind—this is the teaching of the Buddhas.
  4. One is one's own refuge; who else could be the refuge?
  5. Let one not regard the faults of others, nor what others have done or left undone; let one regard rather one's own deeds, done and undone.

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  2. A person's character is their destiny.
  3. What is opposed brings together; from what differs comes the finest harmony.
  4. Death is nothing to us: for what has been dissolved has no sensation, and what has no sensation is nothing to us.
  5. Pleasure is the beginning and end of the happy life — not the pleasures of profligates, but freedom from pain in the body and from disturbance in the soul.

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