181. There are two people you can never repay. Which two? Your father and your mother. Even if you were to carry them on your back and live for a hundred years, supporting them, anointing them with medicines, bathing and massaging their limbs and wiping up their excrement after them, even this would not repay them. Even if you were to give them absolute sovereignty over the whole world, this would still not repay them. And why? Because parents do much for their children, they bring them up, nourish them and introduce them to the world. But whoever encourages their doubting parents to believe, their immoral parents to be virtuous, their stingy parents to be generous and their foolish parents to be wise, that one by so doing, does repay, does more than repay their parents.
A.I,61 (AN 2.33)
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