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Thirukkural 1078

Kural 1078

சொல்லப் பயன்படுவர் சான்றோர் கரும்புபோல்
கொல்லப் பயன்படும் கீழ்.

Sollap Payanpatuvar Saandror Karumpupol
Kollap Payanpatum Keezh

The good to those will profit yield fair words who use; The base, like sugar-cane, will profit those who bruise

Meaning

The great bestow (their alms) as soon as they are informed; (but) the mean, like the sugar-cane, only when they are tortured to death.

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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