Dhammapada · 11.2

Passa cittakataṃ bimbaṃ, arukāyaṃ samussitaṃ;Āturaṃ bahusaṅkappaṃ, yassa natthi dhuvaṃ ṭhiti.

Passa cittakatam bimbam, arukayam samussitam; Aturam bahusankappam, yassa natthi dhuvam thiti.

Behold this painted image — a body of sores, propped up, full of imagining, in which nothing endures.

— Dhammapada 11.2

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.