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Thirukkural 791

Chapter 80: நட்பாராய்தல் (Investigation in forming Friendships) · Wealth

Kural 791

நாடாது நட்டலிற் கேடில்லை நட்டபின்
வீடில்லை நட்பாள் பவர்க்கு.

Naataadhu Nattalir Ketillai Nattapin
Veetillai Natpaal Pavarkku

To make an untried man your friend is ruin sure; For friendship formed unbroken must endure

Meaning

As those who are of a friendly nature will not forsake (a friend) after once loving (him), there is no evil so great as contracting a friendship without due inquiry.

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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