Solluka sollir payanudaiya; sollarka sollir payanilaachch sol.If you must speak, speak purposefully;Eschew all vain and profitless words. Speech should always be purposeful; it is evil to indulge in vain and purposeless words. In our country, where ...
Porultheerndha pochchaandhun sollaar, marultheerndha Maasaru kaatci yavar. Men of clear vision, who have overcome human follies, will not speak Meaningless and idle words, even by lapse of memory. Idle words cannot emanate from a man ...
Nayanila sollinun solluka; saanroar Payanila sollaamai nanru Men of virtue too may sometimes speak unfairly;It were better, that they do not talk uselessly. This Kural would imply that idle talk is more productive of evil than ...
Payanilsol paaraattu vaanai mahanenal Makkat pathadi yenal.One who habitually utters vain and profitless words is no man, but just chaff among men. A man of idle talk is just chaff among men. That would be the ...
Seermai cirappoadu neengum, payanila Neermai yudaiyaar solin.The translation below is based on K Srinivasan's: If a man of worth indulges in purposeless speech,Excellence and fame will depart from him. If ordinary people themselves stand to lose ...
Nayansaara nanmaiyin neekkum, payansaarapPanpilsol pallaa rakathu He who speaks vain and graceless words in public assembly Will expose his want of essential goodness and moral rectitude. It might appear that Valluvar is labouring a relatively minor matter, ...
Nayanilan enpadhu sollum, payanila Paarith turaikkum urai.The purposeless and profitless meandering talk of a man before a gathering,Will proclaim to the world his own worthlessness. That is why Benjamin Franklin said, 'The heart of a fool ...
Payanila pallaarmun sollal nayanila Nattaarkan seythalin teethuThe practice of indulging in indecent talk in an assembly is worse,Than that of being graceless to one’s friends. It is acknowledgedly bad to hurt friends by graceless acts, but it ...
Pallaar muniyap payanila solluvaanEllaarum ellap padum The man who talks purposeless rant in a congregation Will make himself the laughing stock of all. In this chapter Thiruvalluvar deals with the habit of indulgence in profitless. Words. ...