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He who rightly pursues the householder's life here on Earth will be rightfully placed among the Gods there in Heaven.
-Tirukkural 5:49-50
• Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you would have preferred to talk.
-Doug Larson
• The king said: 'Venerable Sir, where does wisdom dwell?'
'Nowhere, O king.'
'Then, Sir, there is no such thing as wisdom.' 'Where does the wind dwell, O king?'
'Not anywhere, Sir.'
'So there is no such thing as wind.' 'Well answered, Sir'
• He who has amassed great wealth but does not enjoy it is reckoned as dead, like his unused heap.
Believing wealth is everything, yet giving away nothing, the miser himself will be possessed by a miserable birth.
-Tirukkural 101:1001-1002
• From evil springs forth more evil. Therefore, evil is to be feared even more than fire.
To commit no wrong, even against one's enemies,
Is said to be supreme wisdom.
-Tirukkural 21:202-203
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