The immoral can no more earn respectThan the envious be rich.
Thiruvalluvar, Kural.
“I never saw Death before, and now I seeThat it is warring eyes in a woman's form.”
“Those who have wisdom have all:Fools with all have nothing.”
“It is politics to please and hoodwink thoseWho flatter but despise us.”
“Those are fools however learnedWho have not learned to walk with the world.”
“When the rare chance comes, seize itTo do the rare deed.”
“It is compassion, the most gracious of virtues,Which moves the world.”
“You cannot give out one frequency, that of disrespect, and expect respect to flow toward you. Neither can you hold on to your biases, prejudices, and negative thinking toward something, and expect ...”
“You have had many successes, and you have earned the right to be respected.”
“Better to have the trust of the people than their respect. With trust, their respect could be earned later; without it, respect could never be deserved, and so to have it would be like poison.”
“I see your point. It irks you to see anyone at all who is able to work permitted to live without working. But why do you consider work a virtue?”
“Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.”