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Kural 1018

Kural 1018 · Shame

பிறர்நாணத் தக்கது தான்நாணா னாயின் அறம்நாணத் தக்கது உடைத்து.

Original Tamil · Tiruvalluvar · Senkanthal digital edition

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Sourced translation · English

Though know'st no shame, while all around asha med must be: Virtue will shrink away ashamed of thee!

G. U. Pope · 1886 · Public domain. Historical wording is preserved.

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Tiruvalluvar; Tamil digital dataset Senkanthal.org

MIT (explicit dataset permission in repository README); underlying classical Tamil public domain

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