Dhammapada · 4.5

Pupphāni heva pacinantaṃ, byāsattamanasaṃ naraṃ;Atittaññeva kāmesu, antako kurute vasaṃ.

Pupphani heva pacinantam, byasattamanasam naram; Atittanneva kamesu, antako kurute vasam.

As one plucks flowers with attached mind, never satisfied in sense-pleasures — death brings them under its sway.

— Dhammapada 4.5

Source: Pali text from the Khuddaka Nikāya of the Pali Canon (oldest extant Buddhist scripture, compiled c. 3rd century BCE). Public-domain English readings drawn from F. Max Müller's translation in Sacred Books of the East, Vol X (1881) and the Buddhist Publication Society's freely-licensed Acharya Buddharakkhita rendering.