Thirukural - Ilvaazhkkai - Kural 41 - 50

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The men of household virtue, firm in way of good, sustain	41
To anchorites, to indigent, to those who've passed away,	42
The manes, God, guests kindred, self, in due degree,	43
Who shares his meal with other, while all guilt he shuns,	44
If love and virtue in the household reign,	45
If man in active household life a virtuous soul retain,	46
In nature's way who spends his calm domestic days,	47
Others it sets upon their way, itself from virtue ne'er declines;	48
The life domestic rightly bears true virtue's name;	49
Who shares domestic life, by household virtues graced,	50