{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/arw/arw44.htm","path":"isl/arw/arw44.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/arw/arw44.htm","text":"Arabian Wisdom, by John Wortabet, [1913]\nAvarice and faith in God can never live together in the heart of man.\nAvarice and ill-nature have no place in the heart of a good man.\nAvarice is the parent of all evil dispositions.\nThe riches of an avaricious man go either to naught or to an heir.\nHe who is close-fisted shall be treated in a like manner.\nA man who is miserly to himself cannot be generous to others.\nAn avaricious man is more lavish of his life than of his money.\nA liberal man lives on his riches, a miser is eaten up by them.\nA miser lives the life of a poor man in this world, and will be judged as a rich man in the world to come.\nHe who makes his morsel large will be choked.\nAvarice is the murderer of the miser.\nGreed is the mate of sorrow.\nStrong wine is not more destructive to reason than greed.\nAn old man continues to be young in two things\u2014love of money and love of life.","title":"Arabian Wisdom: Avarice, Stinginess, Greed","type":"page"}