
“To be poor without murmuring is difficult. To be rich without being proud is easy.”
Source: The Analects of Confucius
The Newspaper (1785), line 158.
“To be poor without murmuring is difficult. To be rich without being proud is easy.”
Source: The Analects of Confucius
“Love of peace, and lonely musing,
In hollow murmurs died away.”
Source: The Passions, an Ode for Music (1747), Line 67.
Riyadh-as-Saliheen by Imam Al-Nawawi, volume 2, hadith number 265
Sunni Hadith
“In war, the poor are killed. In peace, the poor dies.”
Confession of the Lioness: A Novel
“Allah has imposed fasting so that the wealthy might suffer hunger and be kind to the poor.”
al-Shaykh al-Sadūq, Man lā Yahdharul Faqīh, vol.2, p. 43
Religious Wisdom
“And join with thee, calm Peace and Quiet,
Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet.”
Source: Il Penseroso (1631), Line 45
“Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 597.
Blue Labour, Tackling Poverty Together http://www.bluelabour.org/2013/11/24/tackling-poverty-together/