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Thirukkural 826

Chapter 83: கூடா நட்பு (Unreal Friendship) · Wealth

Kural 826

நட்டார்போல் நல்லவை சொல்லினும் ஒட்டார்சொல்
ஒல்லை உணரப் படும்.

Nattaarpol Nallavai Sollinum Ottaarsol
Ollai Unarap Patum

Though many goodly words they speak in friendly tone, The words of foes will speedily be known

Meaning

Though (one's) foes may utter good things as though they were friends, once will at once understand (their evil, import).

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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