才さい子し多た病びょう

expression

talented people are often sickly; whom the gods love die young

A yojijukugo proverb expressing the idea that gifted individuals tend to have fragile health or short lives. Used in literary or reflective contexts.

• 彼かれは若わかくして亡なくなったが、まさに才さい子し多た病びょうだったのかもしれない。

  He died young; perhaps it was a case of 'whom the gods love die young'.