Thiruvalluvar Quotes - Page 2

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Conquer with forbearance The excesses of insolence.

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

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

Fame is a jealous mistress And will brook no rival.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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