My friend, it is better to be disgraced by good people than to have as an ornament the association of bad people. Glory comes to him who is trampled underfoot by a gallant horse [in battle] and not to the one seated animatedly on a donkey.
वरं सखे सत्पुरुषापमानितो न नीचसंसर्गगुणैरलङ्कृतः / वराश्वपादेन हतो विराजते न रासभस्योपरि संस्थितो नरः //
varam sakhE sathpuruSHApamAnithO na nIchasamsargaguNairalankrthaha / varAshvapAdhEna hathO virAjathE na rAsabhasyOpari samsTHithO naraha //
