Kural 618 · பொறியின்மை யார்க்கும் பழியன்று அறிவறிந்து
Lack of fortune is no blame to anyone; knowing what is right and yet not making effort is the blame.
The Eighteen Lesser Texts, including the Thirukkural.
Lack of fortune is no blame to anyone; knowing what is right and yet not making effort is the blame.
Even if a task cannot be accomplished by divine favour, effort gives wages for the body's toil.
Those who strive without weariness or delay will make even fate turn its back and see its far side.
When trouble comes, smile; there is no means equal to that to approach and overcome it.
Even a flood-like trouble perishes the moment a wise man thinks of the remedy in his mind.
Those who do not suffer under suffering cause suffering to the suffering itself.
The trouble that comes to a man like a bull that pulls through every obstacle meets its own trouble.
Even if troubles come in a row, the trouble that reaches one whose mind does not break is itself troubled.
Those who do not know the habit of hoarding saying 'we have gained', will they grieve saying 'we have lost'?
The great, knowing that the body is a target for sorrows, do not take agitation as grief when trouble comes.