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Thirukkural 470

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Kural 470

எள்ளாத எண்ணிச் செயல்வேண்டும் தம்மோடு
கொள்ளாத கொள்ளாது உலகு.

Ellaadha Ennich Cheyalventum Thammotu
Kollaadha Kollaadhu Ulaku

Plan and perform no work that others may despise; What misbeseems a king the world will not approve as wise

Meaning

Let a man reflect, and do things which bring no reproach; the world will not approve, with him, of things which do not become of his position to adopt.

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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