Dhammapada · 26.19

Vāri pokkharapatteva, āraggeriva sāsapo;Yo na limpati kāmesu, tamahaṃ brūmi brāhmaṇaṃ.

Vari pokkharapatteva, araggeriva sasapo; Yo na limpati kamesu, tamaham brumi brahmanam.

Like water on a lotus leaf, like a mustard seed on the point of a needle — the one to whom sense pleasures do not cling — him I call a brahmin.

— Dhammapada 26.19

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.