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Kural 930
கள்ளுண்ணாமை
Not Drinking Palm-Wine
கள்ளுண்ணாப் போழ்திற் களித்தானைக் காணுங்கால்
உள்ளான்கொல் உண்டதன் சோர்வு.
Kallunnaap Pozhdhir Kaliththaanaik Kaanungaal / Ullaankol Untadhan Sorvu
English
The sober seeing the drunkard's plight On selves can't they feel same effect?
— When one, in sober interval, a drunken man espies,Does he not think, 'Such is my folly in my revelries'
When (a drunkard) who is sober sees one who is not, it looks as if he remembered not the evil effects of his (own) drink