These daily couplets are drawn from Saint Tiruvalluvar’s Tirukural, an ethical masterpiece written over 2,200 years ago in South India. This American English translation, known as Weaver’s Wisdom.
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Tirukural.
Kural 981 It is said that all good things are natural to those who know their duty and walk the path of perfect goodness. Kural 982 Perfect men hold …
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Kural 991 They say if a man is easily accessible to everyone, the virtue of courtesy will be easily accessible to him. Kural 992 Loving kindness and birth in …
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Kural 1001 He who has amassed great wealth but does not enjoy it is reckoned as dead, like his unused heap. Kural 1002 Believing wealth is everything, yet giving …
Tirukural.
Kural 1011 For fair-faced maidens, modesty means bashfulness, but the deeper modesty shies away from shameful karmas. Kural 1012 Food, clothing and such do not differ much among people; …
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Kural 1021 No greater dignity exists than when a man resolutely declares, ”I will never cease in laboring to fulfill my karmas.” Kural 1022 One prolongs his clan by …
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Kural 1031 Wherever it may wander, the world follows the farmer’s plow. Thus despite all its hardships, farming is the foremost occupation. Kural 1032 Farmers are the linchpin of …
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Kural 1041 Ask what is more miserable than being poor, and the answer comes–only poverty pains like poverty. Kural 1042 Poverty, the cruelest of demons, deprives a man of …
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Kural 1051 If you meet a man of means, by all means beg his help. If he refuses, the fault is his, not yours. Kural 1052 Even begging can …
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Kural 1061 It is ten million times better not to beg, even from those precious men whose joy is giving and who thus never refuse. Kural 1062 Were it …
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Kural 1071 Outwardly, vile men resemble human beings. We have never witnessed such a remarkable likeness. Kural 1072 The low-minded are happier than men who know goodness, for they …
