Quotes from Thiruvalluvar, Thirukkural

Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others refer to her son as a wise learned one.

Although an act of help done timely, might be small in nature, it is truly larger than the world itself.

Even if someone does something that brings bad to you, do something good for them and make them feel shy for what they have done to you

To reprove a harm-doer, put him to shame by doing a good deed in return.

He who on earth has lived in the conjugal state as he should live, will be placed among the Gods who dwell in heaven

If the married life possess love and virtue, these will be both its duty and reward

She who has the excellence of home virtues, and can expend within the means of her husband, is a help in the domestic state

From whomsoever one hears anything, it is wisdom to understand the true import of it.