Thirukkural 783 in English
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Tamil original
நவில்தொறும் நூல்நயம் போலும் பயில்தொறும்
பண்புடை யாளர் தொடர்பு.
Transliteration
Navildhorum Noolnayam Polum Payildhorum
Panputai Yaalar Thotarpu
Modern English
“Friendship with a person of good character becomes more enjoyable the more you share it, just as a good book reveals more each time you read it.”
Modern Interpretation
Friendship with a person of good character becomes more enjoyable the more you share it, just as a good book reveals more each time you read it. Time brings out its value. For example, studying, working, or volunteering together can show new strengths in a friend year after year.
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Modern Plain English
Friendship with a person of good character becomes more enjoyable the more you share it, just as a good book reveals more each time you read it.
Poetic Couplet (Bharati)
Like taste in books good friendship grows The more one moves the more he knows
G.U. Pope Translation
Learned scroll the more you ponder, Sweeter grows the mental food;So the heart by use grows fonder, Bound in friendship with the good
Classical Meaning (Drew & Lazarus)
Like learning, the friendship of the noble, the more it is cultivated, the more delightful does it become
Tamil commentary
படிக்கும்போது எல்லாம் மகிழ்ச்சி தரும் நூலின் இன்பம் போல நல்ல குணமுள்ளவரோடு கொண்ட நட்பு அவரோடு பழகும் போதெல்லாம் மகிழ்ச்சி தரும்.
Chapter 79
More from Friendship
நட்பு
Like friendship what's so hard to gain? That guards one against acts villain?
Kural 782Good friendship shines like waxing moon, The bad withers like waning moon
Kural 783Like taste in books good friendship grows The more one moves the more he knows
Kural 784Not to laugh is friendship made But to hit when faults exceed
Kural 785No close living nor clasping grip Friendship's feeling heart's fellowship
Kural 786Friendship is not more smile on face It is the smiling heart's embrace
Kural 787From ruin friendship saves and shares The load of pain and right path shows
Kural 788Friendship hastens help in mishaps Like hands picking up dress that slips
Kural 789Friendship is enthroned on the strength That always helps with utmost warmth
Kural 790\"Such we are and such they are!\" Ev'n this boast will friendship mar