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Thirukkural 111

Chapter 12: நடுவு நிலைமை (Impartiality) · Virtue

Kural 111

தகுதி எனவொன்று நன்றே பகுதியால்
பாற்பட்டு ஒழுகப் பெறின்.

Thakudhi Enavondru Nandre Pakudhiyaal
Paarpattu Ozhukap Perin

If justice, failing not, its quality maintain, Giving to each his due, -'tis man's one highest gain

Meaning

That equity which consists in acting with equal regard to each of (the three) divisions of men [enemies, strangers and friends] is a pre-eminent virtue.

Plain English meaning from the 19th-century prose translation by W. H. Drew and John Lazarus. The verse above is G. U. Pope's translation (1886).

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