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Thirukkural 188

Chapter 19: புறங்கூறாமை (Not Backbiting) · Virtue

Kural 188

துன்னியார் குற்றமும் தூற்றும் மரபினார்
என்னைகொல் ஏதிலார் மாட்டு.

Thunniyaar Kutramum Thootrum Marapinaar
Ennaikol Edhilaar Maattu

Whose nature bids them faults of closest friends proclaimWhat mercy will they show to other men's good name

Meaning

What will those not do to strangers whose nature leads them to publish abroad the faults of their intimate friends ?

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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