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Thiruvalluvar Biography

Thiruvalluvar, also known as Valluvar, was a celebrated Tamil poet and philosopher. He is best known for Thirukkuṛaḷ, a collection of couplets on ethics, political and economical matters, and love. The text is considered as one of the finest works of the Tamil literature.

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Fame is a jealous mistress And will brook no rival.

Brook, Jealous, Mistress, Rivals

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

Battlefield, Death, Faces, May, Society

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.

Feels, Greatest, Mother, Son, Wise

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

Fool, Fools, Walk, Walks, World

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

Live, May, Men, Perish, Wander, Wandering

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

Arrow, Arrows, Killed, Lions, Missed, Rabbits

They who in trouble untroubled are Will trouble trouble itself.

Adversity, Calm, Endurance, Trouble, Untroubled

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

Death, Give, Giving, Like, Way

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

Delight, Departures, Learning, Leave, Memories

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

Children, Fortune, Jewels, Men

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

Gives, Giving Up, Men, Pain, Suffer, Things

Conquer with forbearance The excesses of insolence.

Conquer, Excess, Excesses, Forbearance, Insolence

To get wealth and security by guile Is like one who pours water into a pot of unbaked clay.

Clay, Like, Pours, Water, Wealth

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

Bowmen, Foe, Foes, Ifs, Make, Penmen

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

Crow, Disposition, Doe, Like, Prey, Wealth

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

Eye, Eyes, Faces, Seeing, Two, Unlearned

Real kindness seeks no return.

Kindness, Real, Return, Words Of Wisdom

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

Away, Guests, Might, Mightiest, Poverty, Turn

The ignorant torment themselves more than they do others.

Ignorance, Ignorant, Torment

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.

Compassion, Inspirational, Material, Mean, Motivational, Ways

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