Virtue alone is happiness; all elseIs else, and without praise.
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.”
“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.”