Servants who are discontented, who have been dismissed from their offices, or who have been degraded from honourable situations, who have brought destitution upon themselves, or who have been ruined by their enemies, who have been weakened, who are rapacious, or enraged, or alarmed, or deceived, who have suffered confiscation, who are proud and willing to perform great feats but who are deprived of the means of acquiring wealth, and who burn with grief or anger for any injury done to them,-always wait for misfortunes to befall their masters. Being deceived, they forsake their masters and become powerful instruments in the hands of his enemies.
असंतुष्टाश्च युताः स्थानान्मानात् प्रत्यवरोपिताः। स्वयं चोपहृता भृत्या ये चाप्युपहिताः परैः॥ परिक्षीणाश्च लुब्धाश्च क्रुद्धा भीताः प्रतारिताः। हतस्वा मानिनो ये च त्यक्तादाना महेप्सवः॥ संतापिताश्च ये केचिद् व्यसनौघप्रतीक्षिणः। अन्तर्हिता: सोपहितास्ते सर्वे परसाधनाः॥