அளவளா வில்லாதான் வாழ்க்கை குளவளாக் கோடின்றி நீர்நிறைந் தற்று.
Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition
Read Kural 523 ↗Kural 523
His joy of life who mingles not with kinsmen gathered round, Is lake where streams pour in, with no encircling bound.
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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