Dhammapada · 5.10

Madhuvā maññati bālo, yāva pāpaṃ na paccati;Yadā ca paccati pāpaṃ, atha bālo dukkhaṃ nigacchati.

Madhuva mannati balo, yava papam na paccati; Yada ca paccati papam, atha balo dukkham nigacchati.

As long as evil ripens not, the fool thinks it is honey. But when evil ripens, the fool comes to grief.

— Dhammapada 5.10

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.