The world goes on because civilized men exist.
Without them it would collapse into mere dust.
Though their minds are as sharp as a rasp,
Men without human decency are as wooden as a tree.
-Tirukkural 100:997-8Excerpted from the Tirukkural, translated by Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami.
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