Speaking Pleasant Words By Thiruvalluvar Poem by Rajendran Muthiah

91. The spoken words of the virtuous people
With sweetness, love and uprightness are filled.
92. Better to speak pleasant words with a cheerful face
Than to be bounteous with a willing heart.
93. With a smiling face and pleasing looks, the words sweet
Springing from the heart is called virtue.
94. Those who utter pleasing, delightful words to all
Have no poverty to maul.
95. Humility and peasant speech are the ornaments to one
And any other thing present is nothing.
96. Seeking to speak sweet words
Makes vice vanish and virtue to flourish.
97. Sweet, virtuous words give benefits
And bring great pleasure and goodness at heart.
98. Kindly words free from meanness impart delight
In this birth and the birth next.
99. What purpose makes one use sassy words
when one sees the joy of speaking sweet words?
100.To natter on nasty words with fabulous words in hand
Likens choosing and eatingunrip[e fruits than to ripe ones.