Itivuttaka — Assim Foi Dito — 25 — Lying

1This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard.

2“Mendicants, for an individual person who transgresses in one thing, there is no bad deed they would not do, I say. What one thing? It is this: telling a deliberate lie.”

3The Buddha spoke this matter. On this it is said:

4“When a personage, spurning the hereafter,
transgresses in just one thing—
lying—
there is no evil they would not do.”

5This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard.