Pakkantasutta

Suttapiṭaka · Saṁyuttanikāya · Nidānavaggasaṁyutta · Vol. 16 · Section 591

[591] This is what the Blessed One said. Having said this, the Sugata, the Teacher, further said this: Truly its own fruit destroys the plantain, its fruit the bamboo, its fruit the reed; honor destroys the base man, as the embryo destroys the she-mule. The fifth.

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.