Kural 401<\/p>\n
Speaking to a learned gathering without ample knowledge
\nis like playing a dice game without the board.
\nKural 402<\/p>\n
An uneducated man desiring to be eloquent
\nis like a breastless woman longing to be feminine.
\nKural 403<\/p>\n
Even the ignorant will be considered wise
\nif they refrain from speaking in the presence of the learned.
\nKural 404<\/p>\n
However excellent an untaught man’s knowledge may be,
\nerudite men will never accept it.
\nKural 405<\/p>\n
An unschooled man’s self-conceit will shrivel
\nthe moment he speaks to an assembly.
\nKural 406<\/p>\n
Like unproductive barren land is the man who has neglected
\nlearning. All that can be said about him is that he exists.
\nKural 407<\/p>\n
The handsome charm of him whose knowledge
\nis neither subtle nor penetrating is like that of a painted clay doll.
\nKural 408<\/p>\n
Even more wretched than a learned man’s poverty
\nis the unlearned man’s wealth.
\nKural 409<\/p>\n
Though he is humbly born, a lettered man’s nobility
\ntranscends that of the illiterate nobleman.
\nKural 410<\/p>\n
As men are to wild beasts, so are the masters
\nof brilliant texts to other men.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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