"If you are born, be born for glory,
For those born without it would be better off without birth."

One more of those verses of Thiruvalluvar, the honoured Tamil poet, all written in the Tirukkural, a great masterpiece of 1330 verses.
More verses here.

More info you will find in a earlier photo of this statue.

Foto taken at night when they enlighten this statue with spots, curious, like a ghost on the water .... you hear the breaking waves of the sea and everything else is dark.