“Real kindness seeks no return;
What return can the world make to rain clouds?”
Thiruvalluvar livre Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse XXII.1
Tirukkural
Tiruvalluvar: 27 citations0 J'aime
Tiruvalluvar: Citations en anglais
“There is no greater wealth than Virtue,
And no greater loss than to forget it.”
Thiruvalluvar livre Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse IV.2
Tirukkural
Thiruvalluvar livre Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse 260.
Tirukkural
“When no food is given to the ear,
Then let a little be given to the stomach.”
Thiruvalluvar livre Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse XLII.2
Tirukkural
“Even the ignorant may appear very worthy,
If they keep silent before the learned.”
Thiruvalluvar livre Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse XLI.3
Tirukkural
“The worth of a wife is a man’s good fortune;
His jewels are his good children.”
Thiruvalluvar livre Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse VI.10
Tirukkural
“The learned are said to have seeing eyes;
The unlearned have only two sores on their faces.”
Thiruvalluvar livre Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse XL.3
Tirukkural
“Anger kills both laughter and joy;
What greater foe is there than anger?”
Thiruvalluvar livre Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse XXXI.4
Tirukkural
Thiruvalluvar livre Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse LIII.7
Tirukkural
“The wound that’s made by fire will heal,
But the wound that’s made by tongue will never heal.”
Thiruvalluvar livre Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse XIII.9
Tirukkural
“Not every light is a true light;
To the wise the light of truth is light itself.”
Thiruvalluvar livre Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse XXX.9
Tirukkural
“To turn away a guest is poorest poverty;
To bear with fools is mightiest might.”
Thiruvalluvar livre Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse XVI.3
Tirukkural
“To get wealth and security by guile
Is like one who pours water into a pot of unbaked clay.”
Thiruvalluvar livre Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse LXVI.10
Tirukkural
“When you are about to badger the weak,
Then imagine yourself before a more powerful man.”
Thiruvalluvar livre Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse XXV.10
Tirukkural
“The gruel that children’s little hands have stirred
Is sweeter than nectar.”
Thiruvalluvar livre Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse VII.2
Tirukkural
“The ignorant are like useless, brackish soil;
They exist and that is all.”
Thiruvalluvar livre Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse XLI.6
Tirukkural
“How can he practice true compassion
Who eats the flesh of an animal to fatten his own flesh?”
Thiruvalluvar livre Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse 251.
Tirukkural
Thiruvalluvar livre Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse XXXI.10
Tirukkural
“How can kindliness rule that man
Who eateth other flesh to increase his own?”
Thiruvalluvar livre Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse XXVI.1
Tirukkural
Thiruvalluvar livre Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse LX.5
Tirukkural
“They who in trouble untroubled are
Will trouble trouble itself.”
Thiruvalluvar livre Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse LXIII.3
Tirukkural
“Reasoning with a drunkard is like
Going under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.”
Thiruvalluvar livre Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse XCIII.9
Tirukkural
“If men must beg to live,
May the Creator also go wandering and perish.”
Thiruvalluvar livre Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse CVII.2
Tirukkural
“Whatever things a man gives up,
By those he cannot suffer pain.”
Thiruvalluvar livre Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse XXXV.1
Tirukkural
Thiruvalluvar livre Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse XXXI.7
Tirukkural
Thiruvalluvar livre Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse X.10
Tirukkural
