Thiruvalluvar

Thiruvalluvar (c. 2nd century) was a great saint poet of India who composed in Tamil. We little known about his life but believe that he lived in Tamil Nadu. He is known for his Thirukural or Kural, a three-part work of classical verse which form distich and deals chiefly moral, wisdom, duty, love and money.

Wisdom & Quotes

Kural, also known as Tamil Veda

• Be wise among the wise, but pretend to be dull among fools.
• A fortress is of no use of cowards.
• The biggest fool is he who has learned much, taught much, and is still discontented.
• Friendship with the wise gets better with time, as a good book gets better with age.
• The soul that's made by free will heal again . Not so the wound by the tongue that is made.
• Those who pretend to know what they don't , will be thought ignorant of even what they know.
• The ignorant torment themselves more than they do others.
• There may be many who will gladly face death in the battlefield, but few who will face a hostile society.
• Better the arrow that missed the lion than the one that killed a rabbit.

Nagarjuna