குன்றின் அனையாரும் குன்றுவர் குன்றுவ குன்றி அனைய செயின்.
Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition
Read Kural 965 ↗Kural 965
If meanness, slight as 'abrus' grain, by men be wrought, Though like a hill their high estate, they sink to nought.
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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