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As a bee — without harming the blossom, its color, its fragrance — takes its nectar & flies away: so should the sage go through a village.

"Pupphavagga: Blossoms" (Dhp IV), translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. Access to Insight, 19 September 2010, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/dhp/dhp.04.than.html.