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Thirukkural 184

Chapter 19: புறங்கூறாமை (Not Backbiting) · Virtue

Kural 184

கண்ணின்று கண்ணறச் சொல்லினும் சொல்லற்க
முன்னின்று பின்நோக்காச் சொல்.

Kannindru Kannarach Chollinum Sollarka
Munnindru Pinnokkaach Chol

In presence though unkindly words you speak, say notIn absence words whose ill result exceeds your thought

Meaning

Though you speak without kindness before another's face speak not in his absence words which regard not the evil subsequently resulting from it.

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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