Tirukkural-On Virtue-The Importance Of Virtue-Kural 32

A man"s adherence to virtue raises him to great heights;

His failure brings him down.

Sublime heights are reached by a person who treads the path of virtue and forgetting that path would account for the greatest fall.

This Kural emphasises the importance of virtue in a double barreled sort of way. There is Biblical parallel for this in Provers (10:3):

'The Lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish; but he casteth away the substance of the wicked".