Thiruvalluvar, Kural Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

When the rare chance comes, seize itTo do the rare deed.

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

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

Fame is a jealous mistressAnd will brook no rival.

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

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

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

Conquer with forbearanceThe excesses of insolence.