Library·Śukranīti (as far as the page goes)·3·3.301
दुर्गुणं वक्ति सत्येन प्रियोऽपि सोऽप्रियो भवेत् । गुणं हि दुर्गुणीकृत्य वक्ति यः स्यात् कथं प्रियः ?
durguṇaṃ vakti satyena priyo'pi so'priyo bhavet | guṇaṃ hi durguṇīkṛtya vakti yaḥ syāt kathaṃ priyaḥ ?
Roman (IAST) transliteration rendered by HREEM from the edition's Devanagari; the Devanagari is the edition's own.
Sanskrit only: no published translation is held for this verse.
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Sanskrit Wikisource: शुक्रनीतिः (1 page; revision ids 418671, full list in content/corpus/wikisource cache) — The page numbers few of its verses, so they are counted in order under each heading: chapter.verse, and in chapter 4 chapter.section.verse. The count may differ from printed editions.
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