Meaning of “Let us live happily then, not hating those…”

Meditations 6.6; wording varies by translation.

Dhammapada, early verses in Max Müller’s translation; the passage contrasts retaliation with non-hatred.

Up from Slavery, Chapter XI, “Making Their Beds Before They Could Lie On Them,” Project Gutenberg #2376. Washington says he learned from General Armstrong to reject racial hatred and applies that lesson specifically to hostility and wrongs inflicted on Black Americans; the historical context remains explicit rather than becoming generic advice to ignore mistreatment.

Dhammapada 201, Max Müller translation; the line appears in the chapter on happiness and contrasts competitive victory with contentment.

Dhammapada 35, F. Max Müller translation; the wording belongs to the chapter on thought and is preserved as a translated canonical verse rather than attributed to a modern individual author.

Dhammapada 202 in Max Müller’s translation; “rest” belongs to the Buddhist religious context of release and should be read within that framework.