Tiruvalluvar, Tirukural — Chapter 8 (1886)
“ Is there any fastening that can shut in love ? Tears of the affectionate will publish the love that is within. Kural-72 The loveless to themselves belong alone; The loving men are others' to the very bone. Those who are destitute of love appropriate all they have to themselves; but those who possess love consider even their bones to belong to others. Kural-73 Of precious soul with body's flesh and bone, The union yields one fruit, the life of love alone. They say that the union of soul and body in man is the fruit of the union of love and virtue (in a former birth) . ”
