[33] Brahmin, this thought occurred to me: 'Whatever ascetics or brahmins there are who are covetous (abhijjhālu), with intense lust for sensual pleasures, and who resort to remote lodgings in the wilderness and forest thickets — because of the defect of being covetous and intensely lustful for sensual pleasures, those worthy ascetics and brahmins indeed summon up unwholesome fear and dread. But I do not resort to remote lodgings in the wilderness and forest thickets covetous, with intense lust for sensual pleasures: I am free of covetousness. I am one of those noble ones who, free of covetousness, resort to remote lodgings in the wilderness and forest thickets.' Seeing in myself this freedom from covetousness, brahmin, I found still greater reassurance for dwelling in the forest.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.