HitopadeśaAnushtubh
दुर्जनेन समं सख्यं वैरं चापि न कारयेत् । उष्णो दहति चाङ्गारः शीतः कृष्णायते करम् ॥
One should cultivate neither friendship nor even enmity with the wicked. They are like a coal — when hot it burns the hand, and when cold it blackens it.
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