Virtue, Profit, and Desire should all be equally pursued. That man who follows only one of them is certainly not a superior person. He is middling who follows only two of them. He, on the other hand, is the best who follows all the three.
धर्मार्थकामाः सममेव सेव्या यो होकभक्तः स नरो जघन्यः। तयोस्तु दाक्ष्यं प्रवदन्ति मध्यं स उत्तमो योऽभिरतस्त्रिवर्गे॥