Tirukkural-On Virtue-Charity-Kural 225

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This Couplet could be translated as under, according to K Srinivasan:

Great are they who hunger's pangs sustain,But greater those who relieve hunger's pain.

Rajaji would say on this:

'The suffering of privation or fast is brave, but it is braver to feel for others and stint yourself to help them'.

Kural 160 lays down similar comparison with reference to forbearance.