That concourse of learned men engaged in the discussion of the ethics of both the Shrutis and the Smritis is not a good assembly,-indeed, that does not deserve to be called so,-entering which a wicked man is not stricken with fear. That men is the foremost of his sex, who having made a proper enquiry after righteousness acts according to the conclusions to which he arrives.
न तत्सदः सत्परिवत् सभा च सा प्राप्य यां न कुरुते सदा भयम्। धर्मतत्त्वमवगाह्य बुद्धिमान् योऽभ्युपैति स धुरंधरः पुमान्॥