कच्चिन्मुख्या महत्स्वेव मध्यमेषु च मध्यमा। जघन्याश्च जघन्येषु भृत्यास्ते तात योजिताः॥
kaccinmukhyā mahatsveva madhyameṣu ca madhyamā| jaghanyāśca jaghanyeṣu bhṛtyāste tāta yojitāḥ||
English Meaning
And, my child, do you employ the best servants upon the best offices, the middling upon middling, and the worst upon the worst?
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)