కంచానికి ఒక్కడు – మంచానికి ఇద్దరు

అర్థం

One person is enough to ruin a pot of metal (kanchana), but it takes two to spoil a bed (mancha)—meaning some corruptions happen quickly through one bad influence, while others require complicity from multiple people. This proverb is used to explain how moral degradation can occur at different rates depending on the nature of the vice.