Valluvar 1.
A merchant's best merchandise

Is tending other's goods as his own

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Valluvar 2.
Be a technologist among the technologist,

Be an expert among scholars

But pretend to be silent among the gossip mongers

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Valluvar 3.
What won't they do to strangers

Who broadcast their customers fault

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Valluvar 4.
Learn well what should be learnt, and then

Live your learning

Remember: The great hide others' faults

Only the small talk of nothing else

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Valluvar 5.
A good mind is an asset to everyone

While good company contributes to glory

The great avoid the low in whom

The low find their kin

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Valluvar 6.
Orators who wish to do good

Should study the occasion with care

Those are poor orators, unavailing

Who speak without knowing their audience

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Valluvar 7.
Act after taking into account

The cost, the benefit, the net

It is not wisdom to lose the capital

For the sake of interest

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Valluvar 8.
However well-versed in books

Be practical

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Valluvar 9.
The wise know what comes next -

Fools cannot.

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Valluvar 10.
His body needs no drugs who only eats

After digesting what he eats before

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Valluvar 11.
Be born if you must for fame: or else

Better not be born at all

The great do the impossible

The mean cannot do it.

A world conqueror bides his time

Unperturbed