Thiruvalluvar Quotes
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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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They who in trouble untroubled are Will trouble trouble itself.
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How can one, who eats the flesh of others to swell his flesh, show compassion?
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Whatever things a man gives up, By those he cannot suffer pain.
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Among the wealthy, compassionate men claim the richest wealth, For material wealth is possessed by even contemptible men. Find and follow the good path and be ruled by compassion. For if the various ways are examined, compassion will prove the means to liberation.
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To turn away a guest is poorest poverty; To bear with fools is mightiest might.
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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 wound that's made by fire will heal, But the wound that's made by tongue will never heal.
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Make foes of bowmen if you must, Never of penmen.
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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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Be wise among the wise, but pretend to be dull among fools.
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Better the arrow that missed the lion than the one that killed a rabbit.
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It is the prowess of scholars that meetings bring delight and departures leave memories.
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Great wealth, like a crowd at a concert, Gathers and melts.
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Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others refer to her son as a wise learned one.
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The ignorant are like useless, brackish soil; They exist and that is all.
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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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There may be many who will gladly face death in the battlefield, but few who will face a hostile society.
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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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There is no greater wealth than Virtue,And no greater loss than to forget it.
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Anger kills both laughter and joy; What greater foe is there than anger?
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Conquer with forbearance The excesses of insolence.
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Friendship with the wise gets better with time, as a good book gets better with age.
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Nothing is impossible for those who act after wise counsel and careful thought.
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Among a man's many good possessions, A good command of speech has no equal. Prosperity and ruin issue from the power of the tongue. Therefore, guard yourself against thoughtless speech.
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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 the rare chance comes, seize it To do the rare deed.
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A fortress is of no use to cowards.
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Those who pretend to know what they don't, will be thought ignorant of even what they know.
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Worthless are those who injure others vengefully, while those who stoically endure are like stored gold. The gratification of the vengeful lasts only for a day, but the glory of the forbearing lasts until the end of time. Though unjustly aggrieved, it is best to suffer the suffering and refrain from unrighteous retaliation.
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