A person should not himself do that act which, if done by another, will bring censure on him. Indeed, by doing an act that one censures in others, one meets with ridicule.
परेषां यदसूयेत न तत् कुर्यात् स्वयं नरः। यो ह्यसू युस्तथायुक्तः सोऽवहासं नियच्छति॥