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Thirukkural 219

Chapter 22: ஒப்புரவறிதல் (Duty to Society) · Virtue

Kural 219

நயனுடையான் நல்கூர்ந்தா னாதல் செயும்நீர
செய்யாது அமைகலா வாறு.

Nayanutaiyaan Nalkoorndhaa Naadhal Seyumneera
Seyyaadhu Amaikalaa Vaaru

The kindly-hearted man is poor in this alone, When power of doing deeds of goodness he finds none

Meaning

The poverty of a benevolent man, is nothing but his inability to exercise the same.

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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