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Thirukkural 310

Chapter 31: வெகுளாமை (Restraining Anger) · Virtue

Kural 310

இறந்தார் இறந்தார் அனையர் சினத்தைத்
துறந்தார் துறந்தார் துணை.

Irandhaar Irandhaar Anaiyar Sinaththaith
Thurandhaar Thurandhaar Thunai

Men of surpassing wrath are like the men who've passed away; Who wrath renounce, equals of all-renouncing sages they

Meaning

Those, who give way to excessive anger, are no better than dead men; but those, who are freed from it, are equal to those who are freed (from death).

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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