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Thirukkural 100

Chapter 10: இனியவை கூறல் (The Utterance of Pleasant Words) · Virtue

Kural 100

இனிய உளவாக இன்னாத கூறல்
கனிஇருப்பக் காய்கவர்ந் தற்று.

Iniya Ulavaaka Innaadha Kooral
Kaniiruppak Kaaikavarn Thatru

When pleasant words are easy, bitter words to use, Is, leaving sweet ripe fruit, the sour unripe to choose

Meaning

To say disagreeable things when agreeable are at hand is like eating unripe fruit when there is ripe.

Plain English meaning from the 19th-century prose translation by W. H. Drew and John Lazarus. The verse above is G. U. Pope's translation (1886).

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