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Thirukkural 816

Chapter 82: தீ நட்பு (Evil Friendship) · Wealth

Kural 816

பேதை பெருங்கெழீஇ நட்பின் அறிவுடையார்
ஏதின்மை கோடி உறும்.

Pedhai Perungezheei Natpin Arivutaiyaar
Edhinmai Koti Urum

Better ten million times incur the wise man's hate, Than form with foolish men a friendship intimate

Meaning

The hatred of the wise is ten-million times more profitable than the excessive intimacy of the fool.

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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