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Thirukkural 26

Chapter 3: நீத்தார் பெருமை (The Greatness of Ascetics) · Virtue

Kural 26

செயற்கரிய செய்வார் பெரியர் சிறியர்
செயற்கரிய செய்கலா தார்.

Seyarkariya Seyvaar Periyar Siriyar
Seyarkariya Seykalaa Thaar

Things hard in the doing will great men do; Things hard in the doing the mean eschew

Meaning

The great will do those things which is difficult to be done; but the mean cannot do them.

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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