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Thirukkural 408

Chapter 41: கல்லாமை (Ignorance) · Wealth

Kural 408

நல்லார்கண் பட்ட வறுமையின் இன்னாதே
கல்லார்கண் பட் ட திரு.

Nallaarkan Patta Varumaiyin Innaadhe
Kallaarkan Patta Thiru

To men unlearned, from fortune's favour greater-evil springsThan poverty to men of goodly wisdom brings

Meaning

Wealth, gained by the unlearned, will give more sorrow than the poverty which may come upon the learned.

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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