Advising a man with no sense is like pouring nectar into a vessel of poison. Do not smell a heap of cowdung; all you will get there is pollution. The minds of the slothful are warped; they are ineffective like corpses. Save me, says Tuka, from men like these!
Hinduism
Tukaram, Poem 2480
Source The Poems of Tukârâma, trad. J. Nelson Fraser et K. B. Marathe, 3 vol., 1909-1915, archive.org · Contents