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Thirukkural 72

Chapter 8: அன்புடைமை (The Possession of Love) · Virtue

Kural 72

அன்பிலார் எல்லாம் தமக்குரியர் அன்புடையார்
என்பும் உரியர் பிறர்க்கு.

Anpilaar Ellaam Thamakkuriyar Anputaiyaar
Enpum Uriyar Pirarkku

The loveless to themselves belong alone; The loving men are others' to the very bone

Meaning

Those who are destitute of love appropriate all they have to themselves; but those who possess love consider even their bones to belong to others.

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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