Thiruvalluvar Quotes
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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.
— Thiruvalluvar
They who in trouble untroubled areWill trouble trouble itself. — Thiruvalluvar
The wound that's made by fire will heal,But the wound that's made by tongue will never heal.
— Thiruvalluvar
Those who give way to great anger are like the dead:Those who are free from anger are free from death.
— Thiruvalluvar
Friendship with the wise gets better with time, as a good book gets better with age.
— Thiruvalluvar
The only gift is giving to the poor; All else is exchange. — Thiruvalluvar
The biggest fool is he who has learned much, taught much, and is still discontented.
— Thiruvalluvar
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
Although an act of help done timely, might be small in nature, it is truly larger than the world itself.
— Thiruvalluvar
A fortress is of no use to cowards.
— Thiruvalluvar
Foolish people inflict pain upon them self which is worse than what an enemy can bring upon.
— Thiruvalluvar
Just as the earth that bears the man who tills and digs it, to bear those who speak ill of them, is a quality of the highest respect.
— Thiruvalluvar
Even if someone does something that brings bad to you,do something good for them and make them feel shy for what they have done to you
— Thiruvalluvar
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
Uttering foul words, while there are the sweetest of words, is like going for the unripe fruits while there are a lot of ripe ones.
— Thiruvalluvar
Consider a man's good qualities, and consider his faults; and judge his character by that which is more.
— Thiruvalluvar
The ignorant torment themselves more than they do others.
— Thiruvalluvar
From whomsoever one hears anything, it is wisdom to understand the true import of it.
— Thiruvalluvar
Be wise among the wise, but pretend to be dull among fools.
— Thiruvalluvar
Those who pretend to know what they don't, will be thought ignorant of even what they know.
— Thiruvalluvar
Forsake not the friendship of those who have been your staff in adversity, Forget not be benevolence of the blameless.
— Thiruvalluvar
Folded hands may conceal a dagger --Likewise a foe's tears. — Thiruvalluvar
The immoral can no more earn respectThan the envious be rich. — Thiruvalluvar
The wound made by hurting with fire will heal but the wound created by harsh words uttered using out tongue leaves an indelible scar.
— Thiruvalluvar
When you are about to badger the weak,Then imagine yourself before a more powerful man.
— Thiruvalluvar
The learned are said to have seeing eyes;The unlearned have only two sores on their faces.
— Thiruvalluvar
Think wisely before you exercise an action. Having done so however, never look back and regret. That would be a shame
— Thiruvalluvar
Conquer with forbearanceThe excesses of insolence. — Thiruvalluvar
Virtue alone is happiness; all elseIs else, and without praise. — Thiruvalluvar
Just as the hand that strikes the ground cannot fail,So is the ruin certain of him who cherishes anger.
— Thiruvalluvar
Fame is a jealous mistressAnd will brook no rival. — Thiruvalluvar
The lotus' stem is as long as the depth of water,So men's height is just as great as their inner strength.
— Thiruvalluvar
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
Those who have wisdom have all:Fools with all have nothing. — Thiruvalluvar
When the rare chance comes, seize itTo do the rare deed. — Thiruvalluvar
He who on earth has lived in the conjugal state as he should live, will be placed among the Gods who dwell in heaven
— Thiruvalluvar
In sandy soil, when deep you delve, you reach the springs below; The more you learn, the freer streams of wisdom flow.
— Thiruvalluvar
Great wealth, like a crowd at a concert,Gathers and melts. — Thiruvalluvar
She who has the excellence of home virtues, and can expend within the means of her husband, is a help in the domestic state
— Thiruvalluvar
If people scrutinize their own faults as they do the faults of others,Mankind will be freed of all evil.
— Thiruvalluvar
Make foes of bowmen if you must,Never of penmen. — Thiruvalluvar
To get wealth and security by guileIs like one who pours water into a pot of unbaked clay.
— Thiruvalluvar
It is the prowess of scholars that meetings bring delight and departures leave memories.
— Thiruvalluvar
People are talking high of Thiruvalluvar. But in practice they do not respect his teachings. They act against him and disregard him.
— Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
A timely benefit, -though thing of little worth,The gift itself, -in excellence transcends the earth — Thiruvalluvar
Reasoning with a drunkard is likeGoing under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man. — Thiruvalluvar
There may be many who will gladly face death in the battlefield, but few who will face a hostile society.
— Thiruvalluvar
Whatever things a man gives up,By those he cannot suffer pain.
— Thiruvalluvar
This world is not for the poor, nor the next for the unkind.
— Thiruvalluvar
