Quotes from திருக்குறள்

Fame is a jealous mistress And will brook no rival.

Just as the earth that bears the man who tills and digs it, to bear those who speak ill of them, is a quality of the highest respect.

Folded hands may conceal a dagger -- Likewise a foe's tears.

The vast world rainless, one may bid adieu To charity and penance.

I never saw Death before, and now I see That it is warring eyes in a woman's form.

Reasoning with a drunkard is like Going under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.

Foolish people inflict pain upon them self which is worse than what an enemy can bring upon.

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.

Great wealth, like a crowd at a concert, Gathers and melts.

If people scrutinize their own faults as they do the faults of others,Mankind will be freed of all evil.