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Thirukkural 117

Chapter 12: நடுவு நிலைமை (Impartiality) · Virtue

Kural 117

கெடுவாக வையாது உலகம் நடுவாக
நன்றிக்கண் தங்கியான் தாழ்வு.

Ketuvaaka Vaiyaadhu Ulakam Natuvaaka
Nandrikkan Thangiyaan Thaazhvu

The man who justly lives, tenacious of the right, In low estate is never low to wise man's sight

Meaning

The great will not regard as poverty the low estate of that man who dwells in the virtue of equity.

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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