Dhammapada · 5.11

Māse māse kusaggena, bālo bhuñjeyya bhojanaṃ;Na so saṅkhātadhammānaṃ, kalaṃ agghati soḷasiṃ.

Mase mase kusaggena, balo bhunjeyya bhojanam; Na so sankhatadhammanam, kalam agghati solasim.

Month after month a fool may eat his food with the tip of a kusa grass blade — yet he is not worth one-sixteenth of those who have realized the Dhamma.

— Dhammapada 5.11

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.