Sonali Ekka

“There is no object that cannot be obtained through money. Therefore, the wise should strive to attain wealth.

One who has wealth, has friends; one who has wealth, has allies. One who has wealth, only he is a man in this world; one who has wealth, he is a scholar.

It's not knowledge, nor charity, nor craft, nor art, nor the stability of the rich, that the petitioners don’t praise.

In this world even strangers are relatives of the rich. The poor people's own family members also always become wicked.

By the growth and accumulation of wealth, all tasks get done. Just like rivers flow out of the mountains and complete all work.

Even the undeserving get worshipped because of wealth, even the inaccessible becomes accessible, even the ignoble gets praised; all these are the influence of wealth.

Just as all senses are strengthened by eating, all works are accomplished with money. That's why money is said to be the means of everything.

For the desire of wealth, man even visits the cremation grounds. A poor man abandons even his own parents.

Even among the old, those who have money, are young. The poor turn old even in their youth.

People can obtain money in 6 ways: begging, royal service, farming, education, transactions and commerce. Of these commerce is unanimously beneficial. Many people have begged, even kings don't pay enough, farming is difficult, education is very different from the teacher's humbleness, debt can also impoverish; I don't consider any other means of livelihood than commerce.”
― Vishnu Sharma, Panchatantra

“Oh, my dear, relations are like drugs,—useful sometimes, and even pleasant, if taken in small quantities and seldom, but dreadfully pernicious on the whole, and the truly wise avoid them.”
― Elizabeth von Armin

“The people round about are persuaded that I am, to put it as kindly as possible, exceedingly eccentric, for the news has travelled that I spend the day out of doors with a book, and that no mortal eye has ever yet seen me sew or cook. But why cook when you can get some one to cook for you? And as for sewing, the maids will hem the sheets better and quicker than I could, and all forms of needlework of the fancy order are inventions of the evil one for keeping the foolish from applying their heart to wisdom.”
― Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth And Her German Garden

“Come, weary one, use thy Lord’s words as thy pillows, lie down in peace.”
― Charles Spurgeon