Like a beautiful flower full of color and also fragrant (DhP 51, 52) ( lemmy.world )
Like a beautiful flower full of color but without fragrance, even so,
fruitless are the fair words of one who does not practice them.
-- DhammaPada Verse 51
Like a beautiful flower full of color and also fragrant, even so,
fruitful are the fair words of one who practices them.
-- DhammaPada Verse 52
Related Teachings:
Speech like dung, flowers and honey (AN 3.28)
A line drawn in water | A teaching on speech (AN 3.132)
The effects of cultivating the eightfold path are gradual (DhP 273)
