dal Kural a lui attribuito
Origine: Citato Lev Tolstoj, Lettera a un indù, in Pier Cesare Bori, Gianni Sofri, Gandhi e Tolstoj: un carteggio e dintorni, Il mulino, Bologna, 1985, pp. 185-186. ISBN 88-15-00793-8.
Thiruvalluvar Frasi e Citazioni
Thiruvalluvar: Frasi in inglese
“Real kindness seeks no return;
What return can the world make to rain clouds?”
Verse XXII.1
Tirukkural
“There is no greater wealth than Virtue,
And no greater loss than to forget it.”
Verse IV.2
Tirukkural
“When no food is given to the ear,
Then let a little be given to the stomach.”
Verse XLII.2
Tirukkural
“Even the ignorant may appear very worthy,
If they keep silent before the learned.”
Verse XLI.3
Tirukkural
“The worth of a wife is a man’s good fortune;
His jewels are his good children.”
Verse VI.10
Tirukkural
“The learned are said to have seeing eyes;
The unlearned have only two sores on their faces.”
Verse XL.3
Tirukkural
“Anger kills both laughter and joy;
What greater foe is there than anger?”
Verse XXXI.4
Tirukkural
“The wound that’s made by fire will heal,
But the wound that’s made by tongue will never heal.”
Verse XIII.9
Tirukkural
“Not every light is a true light;
To the wise the light of truth is light itself.”
Verse XXX.9
Tirukkural
“To turn away a guest is poorest poverty;
To bear with fools is mightiest might.”
Verse XVI.3
Tirukkural
“To get wealth and security by guile
Is like one who pours water into a pot of unbaked clay.”
Verse LXVI.10
Tirukkural
“When you are about to badger the weak,
Then imagine yourself before a more powerful man.”
Verse XXV.10
Tirukkural
“The gruel that children’s little hands have stirred
Is sweeter than nectar.”
Verse VII.2
Tirukkural
“The ignorant are like useless, brackish soil;
They exist and that is all.”
Verse XLI.6
Tirukkural
“How can he practice true compassion
Who eats the flesh of an animal to fatten his own flesh?”
Verse 251.
Tirukkural
“How can kindliness rule that man
Who eateth other flesh to increase his own?”
Verse XXVI.1
Tirukkural
“They who in trouble untroubled are
Will trouble trouble itself.”
Verse LXIII.3
Tirukkural
“Reasoning with a drunkard is like
Going under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.”
Verse XCIII.9
Tirukkural
“If men must beg to live,
May the Creator also go wandering and perish.”
Verse CVII.2
Tirukkural
“Whatever things a man gives up,
By those he cannot suffer pain.”
Verse XXXV.1
Tirukkural