“Real kindness seeks no return;
What return can the world make to rain clouds?”
Thiruvalluvar книга Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse XXII.1
Tirukkural
Тируваллувар — тамильский поэт, автор книги «Тирукурал», которую тамилы почитают как священную. Жил в окрестностях Майлапура .
Биография Тируваллувара является настолько спорной, что невозможно даже точно установить, к какой вере и касте он принадлежал . Имеют хождения мнения, что он был индус-пария, джайн, индус из низкой касты, буддист, индус из высокой касты, брахман или же потомок межкастового брака.«Своим» его считают как тамилы — сторонники как индуизма, так и тамилы-джайны. Ряд текстовых моментов в «Тируккурале» свидетельствуют как минимум о близости взглядов автора книги к джайнизму.
Ряд исследователей, в частности, Дж. Поуп, проведший немало лет в Тамил-Наду, переведший много текстов с тамильского языка — включая сам «Тируккурал», считал, что данная книга написана под явным влиянием буддизма.
Время жизни также неизвестно — по разным гипотезам, основанным на текстологическом анализе «Тируккурала», он мог жить от 2 в. до н. э. до 8 в. н. э.Имя Тируваллувар состоит из Thiru и Valluvar . Wikipedia

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