He who desires prosperity for himself should serve good men and, on suitable occasions, men of the middling type; but he should never serve people of the inferior type.
उत्तमानेव सेवेत प्राप्तकाले तु मध्यमान्। अधमांस्तु न सेवेत य इच्छेद् भूतिमात्मनः॥