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Thirukkural 859

Kural 859

இகல்காணான் ஆக்கம் வருங்கால் அதனை
மிகல்காணும் கேடு தரற்கு.

Ikalkaanaan Aakkam Varungaal Adhanai
Mikalkaanum Ketu Thararku

Men think not hostile thought in fortune's favouring hour, They cherish enmity when in misfortune's power

Meaning

At the approach of wealth one will not think of hatred (but) to secure one's ruin, one will look to its increase.

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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