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Thirukkural 32

Chapter 4: அறன் வலியுறுத்தல் (Assertion of the Strength of Virtue) · Virtue

Kural 32

அறத்தினூஉங்கு ஆக்கமும் இல்லை அதனை
மறத்தலின் ஊங்கில்லை கேடு.

Araththinooungu Aakkamum Illai Adhanai
Maraththalin Oongillai Ketu

No greater gain than virtue aught can cause; No greater loss than life oblivious of her laws

Meaning

There can be no greater source of good than (the practice of) virtue; there can be no greater source of evil than the forgetfulness of it.

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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