“Reasoning with a drunkard is like
Going under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.”
Thiruvalluvar book Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse XCIII.9
Tirukkural
“the poisonous world flows into my mouth like water into that of a drowning man”
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