Kural 841<\/p>\n
Dearth of wisdom is the direst destitution.
\nOther poverties the world deems less impoverishing.
\nKural 842<\/p>\n
If any merit is gained when a fool gives a gift, however gladly,
\nit is due to the recipient’s past penance and nothing else.
\nKural 843<\/p>\n
The suffering that ignorant men inflict upon themselves
\ncan hardly be contrived by their enemies.
\nKural 844<\/p>\n
What is stupidity, you ask? It is the conceit
\nthat dares to declare, ”I am wise.”
\nKural 845<\/p>\n
He who pretends to knowledge he does not possess
\nraises doubts about the things he really knows.
\nKural 846<\/p>\n
Fools follow a perverse path, clothing their well-formed naked body,
\nyet never thinking to conceal their deformed mind.
\nKural 847<\/p>\n
Neglecting valuable advice, an ignorant man
\nbecomes the cause of his own misery.
\nKural 848<\/p>\n
That soul who neither follows another’s orders nor fathoms what to
\ndo himself creates nothing but torment until he leaves this life.
\nKural 849<\/p>\n
As an unseeing man sees only the ways of his own mind, whoever
\nattempts to open the eyes of those who will not see is himself blind.
\nKural 850<\/p>\n
He who denies as false what the world declares
\nto be true is deemed to be an earthly demon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kural 841 Dearth of wisdom is the direst destitution. Other poverties the world deems less impoverishing. Kural 842 If any merit is gained when a fool gives a gift, however gladly, it is due to the recipient’s past penance and nothing else. Kural 843 The suffering that ignorant men inflict upon themselves can hardly be contrived by their enemies. Kural 844 What is stupidity, you ask? It is the conceit that dares to declare, ”I am wise.” Kural 845 He who pretends to knowledge he does not possess raises doubts about the things he really knows. Kural 846 Fools follow <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tirukural","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revers-sun.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}