Virtue (அறத்துப்பால்) — Fate (ஊழியல்) — Fate (ஊழ்)

Kural 371:
ஆகூழால் தோன்றும் அசைவின்மை கைப்பொருள்
போகூழால் தோன்றும் மடி.
aakoozhaal thondrum asaivinmai kaipporuL
poakoozhaal thoandrum madi
English couplet:
Wealth-giving fate power of unflinching effort brings;
From fate that takes away idle remissness springs.
Explanation: Perseverance comes from a prosperous fate, and idleness from an adverse fate.

Kural 372:
பேதைப் படுக்கும் இழவூழ் அறிவகற்றும்
ஆகலூழ் உற்றக் கடை.
paedhaip patukkum izhavoozh aRivakatrum
aakaloozh utrak kadai
English couplet:
The fate that loss ordains makes wise men's wisdom foolishness;
The fate that gain bestows with ampler powers will wisdom bless.
Explanation: An adverse fate produces folly, and a prosperous fate produces enlarged knowledge.

Kural 373:
நுண்ணிய நூல்பல கற்பினும் மற்றுந்தன்
உண்மை யறிவே மிகும்.
nuNNiya noolpala kaRpinum matrundhan
uNmai yaRivae migum
English couplet:
In subtle learning manifold though versed man be,
'The wisdom, truly his, will gain supremacy.
Explanation: Although (a man) may study the most polished treatises, the knowledge which fate has decreed to him will still prevail.

Kural 374:
இருவேறு உலகத்து இயற்கை திருவேறு
தெள்ளிய ராதலும் வேறு.
iruvaeRu ulakaththu iyaRkai thiruvaeRu
theLLiya raadhalum vaeRu
English couplet:
Two fold the fashion of the world: some live in fortune's light;
While other some have souls in wisdom's radiance bright.
Explanation: There are (through fate) two different natures in the world, hence the difference (observable in men) in (their acquisition of) wealth, and in their attainment of knowledge.

Kural 375:
நல்லவை எல்லாஅந் தீயவாம் தீயவும்
நல்லவாம் செல்வம் செயற்கு.
nallavai ellaaanh theeyavaam theeyavum
nallavaam selvam seyaRku
English couplet:
All things that good appear will oft have ill success;
All evil things prove good for gain of happiness.
Explanation: Let In the acquisition of property, every thing favourable becomes unfavourable, and (on the other hand) everything unfavourable becomes favourable, (through the power of fate).

Kural 376:
பரியினும் ஆகாவாம் பாலல்ல உய்த்துச்
சொரியினும் போகா தம.
pariyinum aakaavaam paalalla uyththuch
soriyinum pogaa thama
English couplet:
Things not your own will yield no good, howe'er you guard with pain;
Your own, howe'er you scatter them abroad, will yours remain.
Explanation: Whatever is not conferred by fate cannot be preserved although it be guarded with most painful care; and that, which fate has made his, cannot be lost, although one should even take it and throw it away.

Kural 377:
வகுத்தான் வகுத்த வகையல்லால் கோடி
தொகுத்தார்க்கு துய்த்தல் அரிது.
vakuththaan vakuththa vakaiyallaal koati
thokuththaarkku thuyththal aridhu
English couplet:
Save as the 'sharer' shares to each in due degree,
To those who millions store enjoyment scarce can be.
Explanation: Even those who gather together millions will only enjoy them, as it has been determined by the disposer (of all things).

Kural 378:
துறப்பார்மன் துப்புர வில்லார் உறற்பால
ஊட்டா கழியு மெனின்.
thuRappaarman thuppura villaar uRaRpaala
oottaa kazhiyu menin
English couplet:
The destitute with ascetics merit share,
If fate to visit with predestined ills would spare.
Explanation: The destitute will renounce desire (and become ascetics), if (fate) do not make them suffer the hindrances to which they are liable, and they pass away.

Kural 379:
நன்றாங்கால் நல்லவாக் காண்பவர் அன்றாங்கால்
அல்லற் படுவ தெவன்.
nandraangaal nallavaak kaaNpavar andraangaal
allaR patuva thevan
English couplet:
When good things come, men view them all as gain;
When evils come, why then should they complain?.
Explanation: How is it that those, who are pleased with good fortune, trouble themselves when evil comes, (since both are equally the decree of fate) ?.

Kural 380:
ஊழிற் பெருவலி யாவுள மற்றொன்று
சூழினுந் தான்முந் துறும்.
oozhiR peruvali yaavuLa matrondru
soozhinunh thaanmunh thuRum
English couplet:
What powers so great as those of Destiny? Man's skill
Some other thing contrives; but fate's beforehand still.
Explanation: What is stronger than fate ? If we think of an expedient (to avert it), it will itself be with us before (the thought).