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Subject: Tirukural -

Chapter 93: Avoidance of Drunkenness -
Tirukural

A daily chapter from South Indian saint Tiruvalluvar's Tirukural, "Holy

Couplets."

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Chapter 93: Avoidance of Drunkenness

Kural 921
Those who crave intoxicating drink each day
will never be feared and never find fame.

Kural 922
Do not drink liquor. If some wish to, let it be those
who have no wish for the esteem of exemplary men.

Kural 923
The sight of a drunken man's revelry is unbearable
even to his own mother. How, then, must it appear to the wise?

Kural 924
The virtuous damsel called Decency will turn her back
on men who indulge in the vile vice called drunkenness.

Kural 925
Spending one's wealth to purchase self-oblivion
results from being oblivious to proper conduct.

Kural 926
Those who always sleep are akin to the dead.
Those who constantly drink are like men who take poison.

Kural 927
The drooping eyes of those who secretly drink betray that secret,
evoking their neighbor's relentless ridicule.

Kural 928
Stop denying, "I never drink," for next time you drink,
your mind's hidden deception will be betrayed then and there.

Kural 929
One may as well carry a candle under water to search for
a drowned man as use reason to sober a drunk drowned in drink.

Kural 930
Why can't the drunkard who, when sober, sees another's drunken
stupor realize the degrading shame of his own drunkenness?
 

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