One should conciliate an enemy with sweet assurances as if he were a friend. One, however, should always fear that enemy like a room within which there is a snake.
शत्रु च मित्ररूपेण सान्त्वेनैवाभिसान्त्वयेत्। नित्यशश्नोद्विजेत् तस्माद् गृहात् सर्पयुतादिव॥