Hinduism

Tukaram, Poem 3564

Some are insolent by nature, steeped and dyed in insolence; keep far away from them!
Back or front, how can poison end in anything wholesome?
Tuka says, My friend, a snake doesn’t understand that you are stroking him lovingly.

Source The Poems of Tukârâma, trad. J. Nelson Fraser et K. B. Marathe, 3 vol., 1909-1915, archive.org · Contents