கணைகொடிது யாழ்கோடு செவ்விதுஆங் கன்ன வினைபடு பாலால் கொளல்.
Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition
Read Kural 279 ↗Kural 279
Cruel is the arrow straight, the crooked lute is sweet, Judge by their deeds the many forms of men you meet.
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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