Thiruvalluvar Quotes

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How can kindliness rule that man
Who eateth other flesh to increase his own?

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Just as the hand that strikes the ground cannot fail,
So is the ruin certain of him who cherishes anger.

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Real kindness seeks no return;
What return can the world make to rain clouds?

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To get wealth and security by guile
Is like one who pours water into a pot of unbaked clay.

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The crow does not hide its prey, but calls for others to share it;
So wealth will be with those of a like disposition.

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All life will press palms together in prayerful adoration

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Not every light is a true light;
To the wise the light of truth is light itself.

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The gruel that children's little hands have stirred
Is sweeter than nectar.

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To use bitter words, when kind words are at hand,
Is like picking unripe fruit when the ripe fruit is there.

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They who in trouble untroubled are
Will trouble trouble itself.

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There is no greater wealth than Virtue,
And no greater loss than to forget it.

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The learned are said to have seeing eyes;
The unlearned have only two sores on their faces.

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If men must beg to live,
May the Creator also go wandering and perish.

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Whatever things a man gives up,
By those he cannot suffer pain.

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The wound that's made by fire will heal,
But the wound that's made by tongue will never heal.

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Anger kills both laughter and joy;
What greater foe is there than anger?

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The worth of a wife is a man's good fortune;
His jewels are his good children.

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As the quality of water changes with the nature of the soil;
So will a man's reason vary with the quality of his friends.

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The ignorant are like useless, brackish soil;
They exist and that is all.

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The lotus' stem is as long as the depth of water,
So men's height is just as great as their inner strength.

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When you are about to badger the weak,
Then imagine yourself before a more powerful man.

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Reasoning with a drunkard is like
Going under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.

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When no food is given to the ear,
Then let a little be given to the stomach.

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Those who give way to great anger are like the dead:
Those who are free from anger are free from death.

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To turn away a guest is poorest poverty;
To bear with fools is mightiest might.

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Even the ignorant may appear very worthy,
If they keep silent before the learned.

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