Thirukkural |
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Title | Instability |
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| Kural Number | Kural |
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| 331 | There is no baser folly than the infatuation
That looks upon the transient as if it were everlasting. |
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| 332 | Amassing great wealth is gradual, like the gathering of a theater
Crowd. Its dispersal is sudden, like that same crowd departing. |
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| 333 | Wealth's nature is to be unenduring.
Upon acquiring it, do that which is enduring right away. |
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| 334 | Though it seems a harmless gauge of time, a day,
To those who fathom its form, is a saw steadily cutting the tree of life. |
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| 335 | Do good deeds with urgency,
Before death's approaching rattle strangles the tongue. |
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| 336 | What wondrous greatness this world possesses-
That yesterday a man was, and today he is not. |
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| 337 | Man does not know if he will live another moment,
Yet his thoughts are ten million and more. |
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| 338 | The soul's attachment to the body resembles a fledgling
Which forsakes its empty shell and flies away. |
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| 339 | Death is like falling asleep,
And birth is like waking from that sleep. |
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| 340 | Not yet having a permanent home,
The soul takes temporary shelter in the body. |
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