Chapter 105: Poverty
Kural 1041
Ask what is more miserable than being poor,
and the answer comes--only poverty pains like poverty.
Kural 1042
Poverty, the cruelest of demons, deprives a man
of every joy in this life, then takes them from the next life.
Kural 1043
Craving, another name for poverty, will obliterate at once
ancestral honor and dignity of speech.
Kural 1044
Privation produces unmindfulness, which gives birth
to improper words, even in men of proper birth.
Kural 1045
Poverty is that single sorrow which
gives rise to a multitude of miseries.
Kural 1046
Even when the poor perceive profoundly and speak skillfully,
their most meaningful words are always forgotten.
Kural 1047
He who is impoverished and estranged from virtue will be
regarded as a stranger even by his own mother.
Kural 1048
Will the wretched poverty that nearly
killed me yesterday come again today?
Kural 1049
Men may slumber even in the midst of fire,
but none can find repose in the midst of poverty.
Kural 1050
Lacking a morsel of food, a man may either
slay every desire or kill off his neighbor's salt and rice broth.