The Kural or the Maxims of Tiruvalluvar/Chapter 24
CHAPTER 24
GLORY
231. Give to the poor and add glory unto thy name : there is no greater profit for man than this.
232. The one theme in the mouth of all that praise is the glory of those that give unto the poor.
233. Everything else dieth on earth : but the fame that hath no rival endureth for ever.
234. Behold the man that hath won a lasting, world-wide fame: the Gods on high prefer him even before saints.
235. The ruin that addeth unto fame and the death that bringeth glory belong only to the great-souled.
236. If men must needs be born into the world, let them earn glory : as to those who earn it not, it were better for them not to have been born at all.
237. Those that are not free from blemish chafe not at themselves : why then are they wroth against their calumniators ?
238. It is a disgrace for all men if they earn not the memory called fame.
239. Behold the land weighed down beneath the tread of an inglorious people : its riches, even though renowned in the past, will wane away.
240. They alone live who live without blemish : and they alone die who have lived without glory.
HERE ENDETH SECTION i OF PART I
ENTITLED THE LIFE OF THE HOUSEHOLDER