Thiruvalluvar
Quotes
A Tamil poet and philosopher whose work, the Tirukkural, consists of 1,330 couplets that provide ethical guidance on topics such as love, marriage, governance, and virtue. His teachings emphasize the importance of living a righteous life, practicing compassion, and maintaining a strong moral character. His timeless wisdom has shaped the cultural and philosophical landscape of Tamil Nadu and beyond, offering profound insights on how to live a meaningful life.
Thiruvalluvar
Quotes
A Tamil poet and philosopher whose work, the Tirukkural, consists of 1,330 couplets that provide ethical guidance on topics such as love, marriage, governance, and virtue. His teachings emphasize the importance of living a righteous life, practicing compassion, and maintaining a strong moral character. His timeless wisdom has shaped the cultural and philosophical landscape of Tamil Nadu and beyond, offering profound insights on how to live a meaningful life.
To use bitter words, when kind words are at hand, Is like picking unripe fruit when the ripe fruit is there.
They who in trouble untroubled are Will trouble trouble itself.
It is the prowess of scholars that meetings bring delight and departures leave memories.
The wound that's made by fire will heal, But the wound that's made by tongue will never heal.
The one who enjoys the beauty of the present moment is truly alive.
The lotus' stem is as long as the depth of water, So men's height is just as great as their inner strength.
The crow does not hide its prey, but calls for others to share it; So wealth will be with those of a like disposition.
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.
The ocean does not become dirty if a dog defecates in it.
Worth says little; wisdom says plenty.
Just as the hand rushes involuntarily to protect one's honor in case of accidental state of undress, so does a friend come to his friend's aid without being asked.
A goodness that endures till death is better than an evil that lives long.
It is compassion, the most gracious of virtues, Which moves the world.
To get wealth and security by guile Is like one who pours water into a pot of unbaked clay.
This world is not for the poor, nor the next for the unkind.
What you sow, you reap; what you give, you get.
Although an act of help done timely, might be small in nature, it is truly larger than the world itself.
True education is that which teaches self-control and virtue.
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.
A good character is the only true beauty.
Those who pretend to know what they don't, will be thought ignorant of even what they know.
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.
