Dhp 25

Dhammapadaṃ, 2. Appamādavaggo (Carefulness), Verse 25

uṭṭhānenappamādena | saṃyamena damena ca ||
dīpaṃ kayirātha medhāvī | yaṃ ogho nābhikīrati || 25 ||

1)

25. By rousing himself, by earnestness, by restraint and control,
       the wise man may make for himself an island which no flood
            can overwhelm.

-- Translation by F. Max Müller from The Dhammapada, p. 10,
     Vol. X of The Sacred Books of the East, 1881

2)

25. By exertion, by carefulness, by restraint and self-control,
a wise man would make an island, which a flood does not overwhelm.

-- Translation by K.R. Norman from The Word of the Doctrine, p. 4,
    The Pali Text Society, 2000

-- posted on the day of the First Quarter, August 27, 2009