Thiruvalluvar

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

“The benefit a father can confer on his son is to make him fit to occupy the front rank in the assembly of the learned.”

“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”

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

“The entire world is a witness to the phenomenon that sorrows keep away from the kindhearted and compassionate.”

“If the married life possess love and virtue, these will be both its duty and reward”

“Is there any way to safeguard and acquire wealth? Yes, there is one sure way: namely, never to covet the wealth of another.”

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

“There is a limit for everything. You can't just load tons and tons of peacock feathers in a cart considering it's light weight. If you do, it will damage the axle of the cart.”

“The quantity of a man's wealth will not last long if his generous nature is not balanced with the size of his property.”

“Pleasant speech yields joy to all, and observing this, is there any need for unpleasant speech?”

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

“A wise person does not undertake any business with the risk of losing the capital money in search of making a profit.”

“It is good to forget one's anger against one's wrongdoer, whoever he may be, for countless number of evils will quickly grow from this anger.”

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

“Just as the hand rushes involuntarily to protect one's honor in case of accidental state of undress, so does a friend come to his friend's aid without being asked”

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

“To guard and to deal with others' goods as one's own is considered as the mark of proper trade among merchants.”

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

“To embrace the whole world in friendship is wisdom. This wisdom is not changeable like the flowers that bloom and fade.”