Do not awaken a sleeping tiger. Know that you will not escape biting when you will trample on the head of a poisonous snake, which is licking the corner of its mouth with its tongue and which has been hurt by your foot.
बन्धुवाच व्याघ्र शयानं प्रति मा प्रबोधय आशीविषं सृक्किणी लेलिहानम्। पदाहतस्येह शिरोऽभिहत्य नादष्टो वै मोक्ष्यसे तन्निबोध॥