குறள் 969

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Perumai Perumidham Inmai SirumaiPerumidham Oorndhu Vital

Greatness is absence of conceit; meanness, we deem,Riding on car of vanity supreme

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Freedom from conceit is (the nature of true) greatness; (while) obstinacy therein is (that of) meanness