One who is shorn of energy and who has been forsaken by friends can never work with perseverance. Such a man if, appointed, fails in almost every work.
हीनतेजोऽभिसंसृष्टो नैव जातु व्यवस्यति। अवश्यं जनयत्येव सर्वकर्मसु संशयम्॥