Thiruvalluvar Quotes - Page 2

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

  Thiruvalluvar

  Guests, Might, Poverty

  "Tirukkural". Book by Thiruvalluvar, 1840.

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

  Thiruvalluvar

  Men, Water, Torches

  "Tirukkural". Book by Thiruvalluvar, 1840.

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

  Thiruvalluvar

  Kindness, World, Next

  "Tirukkuṛaḷ". Religious text, 1812.

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• The ignorant torment themselves more than they do others.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Ignorance, Ignorant, Torment

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

  Thiruvalluvar

  Laughter, Joy, Foe

  "Tirukkural". Book by Thiruvalluvar, 1840.

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

  Thiruvalluvar

  Ignorant, May, Silent

  "Tirukkural". Book by Thiruvalluvar, 1840.

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• Conquer with forbearance
  The excesses of insolence.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Excess, Conquer, Forbearance

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

  Thiruvalluvar

  Powerful, Men, Imagine

  "Tirukkural". Book by Thiruvalluvar, 1840.

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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.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Giving, Way

  "Tirukkural". Book by Thiruvalluvar, 1840.

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

  Thiruvalluvar

  Crowds, Wealth, Concerts

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• Fame is a jealous mistress
  And will brook no rival.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Jealous, Mistress, Rivals

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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.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Inspirational, Motivational, Mean

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• Make foes of bowmen if you must,
  Never of penmen.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Foe, Ifs

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

  Thiruvalluvar

  Society, May, Faces

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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.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Crow, Doe, Wealth

  "Tirukkural". Book by Thiruvalluvar, 1840.

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

  Thiruvalluvar

  Children, Men, Jewels

  "Tirukkural". Book by Thiruvalluvar, 1840.

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

  Thiruvalluvar

  Men, May, Wander

  "Tirukkural". Book by Thiruvalluvar, 1840.

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

  Thiruvalluvar

  Ears, Littles, Given

  "Tirukkural". Book by Thiruvalluvar, 1840.

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

  Thiruvalluvar

  Water, Clay, Wealth

  "Tirukkural". Book by Thiruvalluvar, 1840.

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

  Thiruvalluvar

  Eye, Two, Faces

  "Tirukkural". Book by Thiruvalluvar, 1840.

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

  Thiruvalluvar

  Hands, Ruins, Failing

  "Tirukkural". Book by Thiruvalluvar, 1840.

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

  Thiruvalluvar

  Ignorant, Useless, Soil

  "Tirukkural". Book by Thiruvalluvar, 1840.

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

  Thiruvalluvar

  Memories, Learning, Delight

  "Tirukkuṛaḷ". Religious text, 1812.

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

  Thiruvalluvar

  Children, Hands, Littles

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

  Thiruvalluvar

  Flesh, Increase, Kindliness

  "Tirukkural". Book by Thiruvalluvar, 1840.

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