So It Was Said 25

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1. So It Was Said 25
2. The Book of the Ones
3. Chapter Three
4. Lying
5. This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard.
6. “Mendicants, for an individual who transgresses in one thing, there is no bad deed they would not do, I say.
7. What one thing?
8. It is this: telling a deliberate lie.”
9. The Buddha spoke this matter.
10. On this it is said:
11. “When a person, spurning the hereafter,
12. transgresses in just one thing—
13. lying—
14. there is no evil they would not do.”
15. This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard.