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Chapter 12: நடுவு நிலைமை

On Virtue Domestic Virtue Chapter 12

Kural 117

நடுவு நிலைமை

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திருக்குறள்

கெடுவாக வையாது உலகம் நடுவாக நன்றிக்கண் தங்கியான் தாழ்வு.

Ketuvaaka Vaiyaadhu Ulakam Natuvaaka Nandrikkan Thangiyaan Thaazhvu

“The just reduced to poverty Is not held down by equity”

The man who justly lives, tenacious of the right,In low estate is never low to wise man's sight

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Kural #117

The Wealth of Honesty

The story illustrates that those who live with justice and fairness are not viewed as poor by the world, but as truly great individuals. The great will not regard as poverty the low estate of that man who dwells in the virtue of equity

8–14 yr 2 min