The Buddha (attributed)

The Dhammapada is a Pali anthology of 423 verses in twenty-six chapters, preserved in the Khuddaka Nikaya of the Buddhist canon. Tradition ascribes the sayings to the Buddha himself, but the attribution is traditional: the verses were gathered from the oral teaching of the early community and compiled in their present form some two centuries or more after his death, around the 3rd century BCE.

The version here is F. Max Müller's translation from the Pali, published in 1881 as the tenth volume of the Sacred Books of the East. It is deliberately literal, and in English it reads close to prose, so the verses are given as paragraphs rather than lines. Each of the twenty-six chapters (vaggas) is kept whole as one poem, with Müller's introduction, notes and index omitted.