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Kural 633

Kural 633 · The Office of Minister of state

பிரித்தலும் பேணிக் கொளலும் பிரிந்தார்ப் பொருத்தலும் வல்ல தமைச்சு.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

A minister is he whose power can foes divide, Attach more firmly friends, of severed ones can heal the breaches wide.

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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