செயற்பால தோரும் அறனே ஒருவற்கு உயற்பால தோரும் பழி.
Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition
Read Kural 40 ↗Kural 40
'Virtue' sums the things that should be done; 'Vice' sums the things that man should shun.
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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