Kāmaṃ kāmayamānassa,
tassa ce taṃ samijjhati, addhā pītimano hoti.
Laddhā macco yadicchati.
Tassa ce -- kāmayānassa, chandajātassa -- jantuno
te kāmā parihāyanti,
sallaviddhova ruppati.
If one, longing for sensual pleasure,
achieves it, yes, one's enraptured at heart.
The mortal gets what one wants.
But if for that person -- longing, desiring --
the pleasures diminish,
one's shattered, as if shot with an arrow.
Sutta Nipāta 4.772, 4.773
Translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
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