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### Samyutta Nikaya I.18

# Hiri Sutta

# Conscience

Translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
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> Who in the world
> is a man constrained by conscience,
> who awakens to censure
> like a fine stallion to the whip?

> Those restrained by conscience
> are rare --
> those who go through life
> always mindful.
> Having reached the end
> of suffering & stress,
> they go through what is uneven
> evenly;
> go through what is out-of-tune
> in tune.

Revised: Wed 16 May 2001