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Thirukkural 119

Chapter 12: நடுவு நிலைமை (Impartiality) · Virtue

Kural 119

சொற்கோட்டம் இல்லது செப்பம் ஒருதலையா
உட்கோட்டம் இன்மை பெறின்.

Sorkottam Illadhu Seppam Orudhalaiyaa
Utkottam Inmai Perin

Inflexibility in word is righteousness, If men inflexibility of soul possess

Meaning

Freedom from obliquity of speech is rectitude, if there be (corresponding) freedom from bias of mind.

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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