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Thirukkural 309

Chapter 31: வெகுளாமை (Restraining Anger) · Virtue

Kural 309

உள்ளிய தெல்லாம் உடனெய்தும் உள்ளத்தால்
உள்ளான் வெகுளி எனின்.

Ulliya Thellaam Utaneydhum Ullaththaal
Ullaan Vekuli Enin

If man his soul preserve from wrathful fires, He gains with that whate'er his soul desires

Meaning

If a man never indulges anger in his heart, he will at once obtain whatever he has thought of.

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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