திறனறிந்து சொல்லுக சொல்லை அறனும் பொருளும் அதனினூஉங்கு இல்.
Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition
Read Kural 644 ↗Kural 644
Speak words adapted well to various hearers' state; No higher virtue lives, no gain more surely great.
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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