வேட்பன சொல்லி வினையில எஞ்ஞான்றும் கேட்பினும் சொல்லா விடல்.
Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition
Read Kural 697 ↗Kural 697
Speak pleasant things, but never utter idle word; Not though by monarch's ears with pleasure heard.
G. U. Pope · 1886 · Public domain. Historical wording is preserved.
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Tiruvalluvar; Tamil digital dataset Senkanthal.org
MIT (explicit dataset permission in repository README); underlying classical Tamil public domain
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