“Real kindness seeks no return;
What return can the world make to rain clouds?”
Thiruvalluvar livro Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse XXII.1
Tirukkural
Tiruvalluvar ou Thiruvalluvar foi um poeta e filósofo tâmil conhecido por compor o poema Tirukkural. Tiruvalluvar nasceu no distrito de Kanyakumari na atual Tâmil Nadu. Supõe-se que terá vivido algures entre o século I a.C. e o século VIII, mas não há prova arqueológica para confirmação de datas, apenas a evidência linguística da obra Tirukkural. É chamado como Theiva Pulaivar .
Além do Tirukkural, Tiruvalluvar terá alegadamente escrito dois textos sobre medicina que se chamam Gnana Vettiyan e Panchatantram.
Há muitos memoriais a Tiruvalluvar em Tâmil Nadu. Em Kanyakumari há uma estátua com 40 m de altura de Tiruvalluvar, correspondendo aos 133 capítulos do Tirukkural. O parque e monumento Valluvar Kottam estão situados no centro de Chennai, datando de 1976. Wikipedia

“Real kindness seeks no return;
What return can the world make to rain clouds?”
Thiruvalluvar livro Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse XXII.1
Tirukkural
“There is no greater wealth than Virtue,
And no greater loss than to forget it.”
Thiruvalluvar livro Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse IV.2
Tirukkural
Thiruvalluvar livro Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse 260.
Tirukkural
“When no food is given to the ear,
Then let a little be given to the stomach.”
Thiruvalluvar livro Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse XLII.2
Tirukkural
“Even the ignorant may appear very worthy,
If they keep silent before the learned.”
Thiruvalluvar livro Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse XLI.3
Tirukkural
“The worth of a wife is a man’s good fortune;
His jewels are his good children.”
Thiruvalluvar livro Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse VI.10
Tirukkural
“The learned are said to have seeing eyes;
The unlearned have only two sores on their faces.”
Thiruvalluvar livro Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse XL.3
Tirukkural
“Anger kills both laughter and joy;
What greater foe is there than anger?”
Thiruvalluvar livro Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse XXXI.4
Tirukkural
Thiruvalluvar livro 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 livro Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse XIII.9
Tirukkural
“Not every light is a true light;
To the wise the light of truth is light itself.”
Thiruvalluvar livro Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse XXX.9
Tirukkural
“To turn away a guest is poorest poverty;
To bear with fools is mightiest might.”
Thiruvalluvar livro 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 livro Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse LXVI.10
Tirukkural
“When you are about to badger the weak,
Then imagine yourself before a more powerful man.”
Thiruvalluvar livro Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse XXV.10
Tirukkural
“The gruel that children’s little hands have stirred
Is sweeter than nectar.”
Thiruvalluvar livro Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse VII.2
Tirukkural
“The ignorant are like useless, brackish soil;
They exist and that is all.”
Thiruvalluvar livro Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse XLI.6
Tirukkural
“How can he practice true compassion
Who eats the flesh of an animal to fatten his own flesh?”
Thiruvalluvar livro Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse 251.
Tirukkural
Thiruvalluvar livro Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse XXXI.10
Tirukkural
“How can kindliness rule that man
Who eateth other flesh to increase his own?”
Thiruvalluvar livro Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse XXVI.1
Tirukkural
Thiruvalluvar livro Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse LX.5
Tirukkural
“They who in trouble untroubled are
Will trouble trouble itself.”
Thiruvalluvar livro Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse LXIII.3
Tirukkural
“Reasoning with a drunkard is like
Going under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.”
Thiruvalluvar livro Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse XCIII.9
Tirukkural
“If men must beg to live,
May the Creator also go wandering and perish.”
Thiruvalluvar livro Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse CVII.2
Tirukkural
“Whatever things a man gives up,
By those he cannot suffer pain.”
Thiruvalluvar livro Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse XXXV.1
Tirukkural
Thiruvalluvar livro Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse XXXI.7
Tirukkural
Thiruvalluvar livro Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse X.10
Tirukkural