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Thirukkural 331

Chapter 34: நிலையாமை (Instability) · Virtue

Kural 331

நில்லாத வற்றை நிலையின என்றுணரும்
புல்லறி வாண்மை கடை.

Nillaadha Vatrai Nilaiyina Endrunarum
Pullari Vaanmai Katai

Lowest and meanest lore, that bids men trust secure, In things that pass away, as things that shall endure

Meaning

That ignorance which considers those things to be stable which are not so, is dishonourable (to the wise).

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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