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The only remedy available for the whole universeKaladarIdaikkadarThere hardly exists in the literature of the world a collection of maxims in which we findsuch lofty wisdom as in ThirukkuralAlbert SchweitzerI wanted to learn Tamil, only to enable me to study Valluvar’s Thirukkural through hismother tongue itself…. It is a treasure of wisdomMahatma GhandiO king, who rules over the land where tame birds fall asleep to the music of the ricepounders! The wonder of the thought contained in one of Valluvarʹs little verses is similarto the drop of water on the tip of the tiniest flower, which reflects the whole length of thetallest palmyra tree.KapilarThirukkural is as clear as an unpolluted spring. Yes! Thirukkural, the unique book, hascome to remove the impurities of this world.GU PopeAs Vishnu, when he appeared as Vamana, or the dwarf, measured with two steps heaven& earth, so with the two lines of his diminutive veppa‐footed kural‐verse Thiruvalluvar hasmeasured the universeParanarI hope that the reader can feel from these quotations the reverence that the Thirukkural hasobtained over the years, His universality can not be denied, & this quotation, pertaining tothe bard of the western world, William Shakespeare, can easily be applied to his easterncounterpart.He was not of an age but for all timeBen Johnson