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Thirukkural 790

Kural 790

இனையர் இவரெமக்கு இன்னம்யாம் என்று
புனையினும் புல்லென்னும் நட்பு.

Inaiyar Ivaremakku Innamyaam Endru
Punaiyinum Pullennum Natpu

Mean is the friendship that men blazon forth,'He's thus to me' and 'such to him my worth'

Meaning

Though friends may praise one another saying, "He is so intimate with us, and we so much (with him)"; (still) such friendship will appear mean.

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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