Dhammapada · 8.7

Māse māse sahassena, yo yajetha sataṃ samaṃ;Ekañca bhāvitattānaṃ, muhuttamapi pūjaye;Sāyeva pūjanā seyyo, yañce vassasataṃ hutaṃ.

Mase mase sahassena, yo yajetha satam samam; Ekanca bhavitattanam, muhuttamapi pujaye; Sayeva pujana seyyo, yance vassasatam hutam.

Though one offer a thousand monthly sacrifices for a hundred years, one moment's honoring of a self-cultivated person is better than a hundred years of such offerings.

— Dhammapada 8.7

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.