வானுயர் தோற்றம் எவன்செய்யும் தன்னெஞ்சம் தான்அறி குற்றப் படின்.
Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition
Read Kural 272 ↗Kural 272
What gain, though virtue's semblance high as heaven his fame exalt, If heart dies down through sense of self-detected fault?
G. U. Pope · 1886 · Public domain. Historical wording is preserved.
Source record
Tiruvalluvar; Tamil digital dataset Senkanthal.org
MIT (explicit dataset permission in repository README); underlying classical Tamil public domain
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