கெடுவாக வையாது உலகம் நடுவாக நன்றிக்கண் தங்கியான் தாழ்வு.
Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition
Read Kural 117 ↗Kural 117
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. Historical wording is preserved.
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Tiruvalluvar; Tamil digital dataset Senkanthal.org
MIT (explicit dataset permission in repository README); underlying classical Tamil public domain
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