According as a man serves a saint or as he is wicked or virtuous or a thief, so he becomes endued with the habits of his associates; even as a cloth comes to be of the same colour with the die in which it is soaked.
यदि सन्तं सेवति सद्यसन्तं तपस्विनं यदि वा स्तेनमेवा वासो यथा रङ्गवशं प्रयाति तथा स तेषां वशमभ्युपैति॥