Tirukkural-On Virtue-Avoiding Idle Talk-Kural 200

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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 it is the besetting sin of most people to hold forth endlessly to no purpose at all, weaving patterns only with words, this injunction of Valluvar"s is extremely pertinent.

Let us learn to do and not talk, much less purposelessly.