The Living Kural
DECODE · KURAL 117

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Impartiality · Virtue

கெடுவாக வையாது உலகம் நடுவாக நன்றிக்கண் தங்கியான் தாழ்வு.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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கெடுவாக வையாது உலகம் நடுவாக நன்றிக்கண் தங்கியான் தாழ்வு.

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The man who justly lives, tenacious of the right, In low estate is never low to wise man's sight.

G. U. Pope, 1886 · Public domain