Dhammapada · Verse 269

Pali

Pāpāni parivajjeti,
sa munī tena so muni;
Yo munāti ubho loke,
“muni” tena pavuccati.

English

and shunning the bad—
that is a sage, <j>and that is how one becomes a sage.
One who sagely weighs both in the world,
is thereby said to be a sage.

License: English CC0 (Bhikkhu Sujato); Pali public domain. Source: SuttaCentral (sc-data).