THE MORAL LAW

Success achieved without minding the prohibitions of the moral law brings grief in the wake of achievement.

To seek to further the welfare of the State by enriching it through fraud and falsehood is like storing water in an unburnt mud pot and hoping to preserve it.

The extreme practicality that Tiru-Valluvar combines with his idealism is illustrated by the following couplet.

Do not do that which your better sense tells you that you will afterwards regret. But if you have done such a thing, it is well you at least decide to refrain from such folly again.

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