Tirukural

CHAPTER 32

Avoidance of Injuring Others

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Even if injuring others would bring princely riches, the pure in heart would still avoid it.§

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It is the principle of the pure in heart never to injure others, even when they themselves have been hatefully injured.§

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Harming others, even enemies who harmed you unprovoked, surely brings incessant sorrow.§

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If you return kindness for injuries received and forget both, Those who harmed you will be punished by their own shame.§

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What good is a man’s knowledge unless it prompts him to prevent the pain of others as if it were his own pain?§

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Actions that are known to harm oneself should never be inflicted upon others.§

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The highest principle is this: never knowingly harm anyone at any time in any way.§

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Why does he who knows what injury to his own life is like inflict injury upon other living human beings?§

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If a man visits sorrow on another in the morning, sorrow will visit him unbidden in the afternoon.§

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All suffering recoils on the wrongdoer himself. Thus, those desiring not to suffer refrain from causing others pain.§