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Kural 121

Kural 121 · The Possession of Self-restraint

அடக்கம் அமரருள் உய்க்கும் அடங்காமை ஆரிருள் உய்த்து விடும்.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

Control of self does man conduct to bliss th' immortals share; Indulgence leads to deepest night, and leaves him there.

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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