Top quotes by 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 Votes: 13

Folded hands may conceal a dagger --Likewise a foe's tears. Votes: 7

The gruel that children's little hands have stirredIs sweeter than nectar. Votes: 6

Nothing is impossible for those who act after wise counsel and careful thought. Votes: 6

Anger kills both laughter and joy;What greater foe is there than anger? Votes: 5

Those who have wisdom have all:Fools with all have nothing. Votes: 5

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. Votes: 4

Fame is a jealous mistressAnd will brook no rival. Votes: 4

When the rare chance comes, seize itTo do the rare deed. Votes: 4

Cling to the One who clings to nothing;And so clinging, cease to cling. Votes: 4

Conquer with forbearanceThe excesses of insolence. Votes: 4

When you are about to badger the weak,Then imagine yourself before a more powerful man. Votes: 3

To get wealth and security by guileIs like one who pours water into a pot of unbaked clay. Votes: 3

A fortress is of no use to cowards. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Reasoning with a drunkard is likeGoing under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man. Votes: 3

How can kindliness rule that manWho eateth other flesh to increase his own? Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

To use bitter words, when kind words are at hand,Is like picking unripe fruit when the ripe fruit is there. Votes: 2

It is compassion, the most gracious of virtues,Which moves the world. Votes: 2

To reprove a harm-doer, put him to shame by doing a good deed in return. Votes: 2

The wound made by hurting with fire will heal but the wound created by harsh words uttered using out tongue leaves an indelible scar. Votes: 1

From whomsoever one hears anything, it is wisdom to understand the true import of it. Votes: 1

I never saw Death before, and now I seeThat it is warring eyes in a woman's form. Votes: 1

Make foes of bowmen if you must,Never of penmen. Votes: 1

The immoral can no more earn respectThan the envious be rich. Votes: 1

Those are fools however learnedWho have not learned to walk with the world. Votes: 1

The vast world rainless, one may bid adieuTo charity and penance. Votes: 1

It is politics to please and hoodwink thoseWho flatter but despise us. Votes: 1

Virtue alone is happiness; all elseIs else, and without praise. Votes: 1

He who on earth has lived in the conjugal state as he should live, will be placed among the Gods who dwell in heaven Votes: 0

She who has the excellence of home virtues, and can expend within the means of her husband, is a help in the domestic state Votes: 0

A timely benefit, -though thing of little worth,The gift itself, -in excellence transcends the earth Votes: 0

If the married life possess love and virtue, these will be both its duty and reward Votes: 0

In sandy soil, when deep you delve, you reach the springs below; The more you learn, the freer streams of wisdom flow. Votes: 0

Great wealth, like a crowd at a concert,Gathers and melts. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Be wise among the wise, but pretend to be dull among fools. Votes: 0

Better the arrow that missed the lion than the one that killed a rabbit. Votes: 0

Even the ignorant may appear very worthy,If they keep silent before the learned. Votes: 0

Friendship with the wise gets better with time, as a good book gets better with age. Votes: 0

How can one, who eats the flesh of others to swell his flesh, show compassion? Votes: 0

If men must beg to live,May the Creator also go wandering and perish. Votes: 0

It is the prowess of scholars that meetings bring delight and departures leave memories. Votes: 0

Just as the hand that strikes the ground cannot fail,So is the ruin certain of him who cherishes anger. Votes: 0

Not every light is a true light;To the wise the light of truth is light itself. Votes: 0

Real kindness seeks no return. Votes: 0

The biggest fool is he who has learned much, taught much, and is still discontented. Votes: 0

The crow does not hide its prey, but calls for others to share it;So wealth will be with those of a like disposition. Votes: 0

The ignorant are like useless, brackish soil;They exist and that is all. Votes: 0

The ignorant torment themselves more than they do others. Votes: 0

The learned are said to have seeing eyes;The unlearned have only two sores on their faces. Votes: 0

The lotus' stem is as long as the depth of water,So men's height is just as great as their inner strength. Votes: 0

The only gift is giving to the poor; All else is exchange. Votes: 0

The worth of a wife is a man's good fortune;His jewels are his good children. Votes: 0

The wound that's made by fire will heal,But the wound that's made by tongue will never heal. Votes: 0

There is no greater wealth than Virtue,And no greater loss than to forget it. Votes: 0

There may be many who will gladly face death in the battlefield, but few who will face a hostile society. Votes: 0

They who in trouble untroubled are Will trouble trouble itself. Votes: 0

This world is not for the poor, nor the next for the unkind. Votes: 0

Those who give way to great anger are like the dead:Those who are free from anger are free from death. Votes: 0

Those who pretend to know what they don't, will be thought ignorant of even what they know. Votes: 0

To turn away a guest is poorest poverty;To bear with fools is mightiest might. Votes: 0

Whatever things a man gives up,By those he cannot suffer pain. Votes: 0

When no food is given to the ear,Then let a little be given to the stomach. Votes: 0