अन्यायः प्रौढवादेन नीयते न्यायतां यया ।
न्यायश्चान्यायतां लोभात्किं तया क्षुद्रविद्यया ॥

anyāyaḥ prauḍhavādena nīyate nyāyatāṁ yayā |
nyāyaś cānyāyatāṁ lobhāt kiṁ tayā kṣudra-vidyayā ||
(Mahāsubhāṣita-saṅgraha: 1798)

“Of what good is that meager learning which, because of [one’s] greed, with meager learning turns the improper into propriety and the proper into impropriety [alt., the unjust into justice and the just into injustice]?”

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