“There is no greater wealth than Virtue,
And no greater loss than to forget it.”
Thiruvalluvar book Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse IV.2
Tirukkural
“The loss of wealth is loss of dirt,
As sages in all times assert;
The happy man's without a shirt.”
Be Merry Friends; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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