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Thirukkural 679

Chapter 68: வினை செயல்வகை (Modes of Action) · Wealth

Kural 679

நட்டார்க்கு நல்ல செயலின் விரைந்ததே
ஒட்டாரை ஒட்டிக் கொளல்.

Nattaarkku Nalla Seyalin Viraindhadhe
Ottaarai Ottik Kolal

Than kindly acts to friends more urgent thing to do, Is making foes to cling as friends attached to you

Meaning

One should rather hasten to secure the alliance of the foes (of one's foes) than perform good offices to one's friends.

Plain English meaning from the 19th-century prose translation by W. H. Drew and John Lazarus. The verse above is G. U. Pope's translation (1886).

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