Tiếng Việt · Proverb Attested

thiên đạo phước thiện họa dàm

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Meaning · English

Heaven's way blesses the good and afflicts the excessive — the sky keeps one ledger for everyone.

Literally: heaven's way: fortune to the kind, calamity to the overreaching

Sources & notes

Discovered via Tục ngữ, cổ ngữ, gia ngôn (Huỳnh Tịnh Của, 1897; public domain, via vi.wikisource); retrieved 2026-08-01. Source: source ↗ Attested in Tục ngữ, cổ ngữ, gia ngôn (Huỳnh Tịnh Của, 1897). Definition is an original editorial synthesis, not copied from the source.

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What does “thiên đạo phước thiện họa dàm” mean?

Heaven's way blesses the good and afflicts the excessive — the sky keeps one ledger for everyone. Literally: heaven's way: fortune to the kind, calamity to the overreaching

Is “thiên đạo phước thiện họa dàm” formal or informal?

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