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Kural 859

Kural 859 · Hostility

இகல்காணான் ஆக்கம் வருங்கால் அதனை மிகல்காணும் கேடு தரற்கு.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

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

G. U. Pope · 1886 · Public domain. Historical wording is preserved.

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Tiruvalluvar; Tamil digital dataset Senkanthal.org

MIT (explicit dataset permission in repository README); underlying classical Tamil public domain

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