The Living Kural
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Kural 302

Kural 302 · Restraining Anger

செல்லா இடத்துச் சினந்தீது செல்லிடத்தும் இல்அதனின் தீய பிற.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

Where power is none to wreak thy wrath, wrath importent is ill; Where thou hast power thy will to work, 'tis greater, evil still.

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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