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Thirukkural 183

Chapter 19: புறங்கூறாமை (Not Backbiting) · Virtue

Kural 183

புறங்கூறிப் பொய்த்துயிர் வாழ்தலின் சாதல்
அறங்கூற்றும் ஆக்கத் தரும்.

Purangoorip Poiththuyir Vaazhdhalin Saadhal
Arangootrum Aakkath Tharum

'Tis greater gain of virtuous good for man to die, Than live to slander absent friend, and falsely praise when nigh

Meaning

Death rather than life will confer upon the deceitful backbiter the profit which (the treatises on) virtue point out.

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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