Thiruvalluvar famous quotes

How can one, who eats the flesh of others to swell his flesh, show compassion?
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Compassion #Flesh #Shows

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

#Hands #Use #Fruit

It is compassion, the most gracious of virtues, Which moves the world.
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Moving #Compassion #World

The only gift is giving to the poor; All else is exchange.
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Giving #Poor

It is the prowess of scholars that meetings bring delight and departures leave memories.
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Memories #Learning #Leaving Me

This world is not for the poor, nor the next for the unkind.
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Kindness #World #Poor

They who in trouble untroubled are Will trouble trouble itself.
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Adversity #Endurance #Calm

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

#Loss #Forget #Wealth

There may be many who will gladly face death in the battlefield, but few who will face a hostile society.
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Society #Faces #May

Better the arrow that missed the lion than the one that killed a rabbit.
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Arrows #Lions #Rabbits

The ignorant torment themselves more than they do others.
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Ignorance #Ignorant #Torment

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

#Children #Men #Jewels

The gruel that children's little hands have stirredIs sweeter than nectar.
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Children #Hands #Littles

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

#Fire #Tongue #Made

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

#Might #Poverty #Fool

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

#Ears #Littles #Given

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.
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Men #Water #Quality

Those who pretend to know what they don't, will be thought ignorant of even what they know.
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Hypocrisy #Ignorant

The biggest fool is he who has learned much, taught much, and is still discontented.
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Taught #Fool #Stills

Friendship with the wise gets better with time, as a good book gets better with age.
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Friendship #Wise #Book

Nothing is impossible for those who act after wise counsel and careful thought.
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Wise #Impossible #Careful

Fame is a jealous mistress And will brook no rival.
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Jealous #Mistress #Rivals

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.
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Inspirational #Motivational #Mean

Real kindness seeks no return.
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Kindness #Real #Return

Great wealth, like a crowd at a concert, Gathers and melts.
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Crowds #Wealth #Concerts

When the rare chance comes, seize it To do the rare deed.
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Deeds #Chance

Those are fools however learned Who have not learned to walk with the world.
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Fool #World #Walks

Conquer with forbearance The excesses of insolence.
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Excess #Conquer #Insolence

Be wise among the wise, but pretend to be dull among fools.
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Wise #Dull #Fool

A fortress is of no use to cowards.
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Coward #Use #Cowardice

Those who have wisdom have all: Fools with all have nothing.
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Fool

Make foes of bowmen if you must, Never of penmen.
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Foe

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.
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Suffering #Gold #Lasts

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.
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Inspirational #Motivational #Men

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.
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Wise #Mother #Son

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

#Men #May #Wander

To get wealth and security by guileIs like one who pours water into a pot of unbaked clay.
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Water #Clay #Wealth

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

#Men #Water #Long

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

#Crow #Doe #Wealth

Reasoning with a drunkard is likeGoing under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Men #Water #Torches

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

#Ignorant #Soil #Useless

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

#Powerful #Men #Imagine

How can kindliness rule that manWho eateth other flesh to increase his own?
-- Thiruvalluvar

#Flesh #Increase #Kindliness

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

#Wise #Light #Truth Is

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

#Laughter #Joy #Laughter And Joy

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

#Hands #Ruins #Cherish

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

#Giving #Way

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

#Pain #Giving Up #Men

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

#Eye #Two #Faces

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

#Ignorant #May #Silent