Tirukural

CHAPTER 40

Learning

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All that you learn, learn perfectly, and thereafter keep your conduct worthy of that learning.§

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Two are the eyes of those who truly live— one is called numbers, and the other letters.§

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The learned have eyes that see, they say. The unlearned have two open sores on their face.§

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It is the learned man’s prowess that meetings with him bring delight, and departures leave pleasant thoughts.§

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The learned remain ever humble, as the poor are before the prosperous. Lowly men lack such learning.§

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The deeper a sand well is dug, the more freely its water flows. Even so, the deeper a man’s learning, the greater is his wisdom.§

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Knowing that knowledge makes all nations and neighborhoods one’s own, how can a man stay untutored until his death?§

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The learning a man secures in one birth will secure his well-being in seven.§

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When the learned discern that the learning which delights them also delights the world, they love learning all the more.§

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A man’s learning is an imperishable and precious wealth. No other possession is as golden.§