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“ സുഖദുഖാദികൾ വെള്ളത്തിൽഇട്ട ഉതളങ്ങ പോലെ”
English Translation:
Joys and sorrows are like an odollam fruit bobbing upon water. (Fortunes rise and sink incessantly with the shifting swells of circumstance; worldly states are fluid and unstable.)

“ അതിബുദ്ധിക്ക് അല്പായുസ്സ്”
English Translation:
Excessive cunning has a short lifespan. (Too much cleverness outsmarts itself and invites swift ruin.)

“ സങ്കടകോഴിക്കു പണമൊന്നു”
English Translation:
For a chicken sold in distress, a single copper coin. (Exploiting another’s desperation to purchase valuable assets for a pittance; distress sales yield bottom prices.)