Dhammapada · 9.5

Bhadropi passati pāpaṃ, yāva bhadraṃ na paccati;Yadā ca paccati bhadraṃ, atha bhadro bhadrāni passati.

Bhadropi passati papam, yava bhadram na paccati; Yada ca paccati bhadram, atha bhadro bhadrani passati.

Even a good person sees evil as long as good has not ripened. But when good ripens, the good one sees the goods.

— Dhammapada 9.5

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.