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Thirukkural 124

Chapter 13: அடக்கம் உடைமை (The Possession of Self-restraint) · Virtue

Kural 124

நிலையின் திரியாது அடங்கியான் தோற்றம்
மலையினும் மாணப் பெரிது.

Nilaiyin Thiriyaadhu Atangiyaan Thotram
Malaiyinum Maanap Peridhu

In his station, all unswerving, if man self subdue, Greater he than mountain proudly rising to the view

Meaning

More lofty than a mountain will be the greatness of that man who without swerving from his domestic state, controls himself.

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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