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book of aphorisms by a Pakistani lawyer

Money

  1. Money is never wasted, as it goes into circulation. The person who wastes the money is wasted, because he goes out of circulation.
  2. Making as much money as you can is a virtue, but keeping as much money as you will is a vice.
  3. Wealth is not worth the happiness of a lifetime we give to get it.
  4. Recession means that the rich are not getting richer and the poor are losing jobs.
  5. Money cannot buy the great blessings of life, such as longing for knowledge, taste for art, luck in love and briskness of mind.
  6. Consistency is the virtue of a dull person busy inmaking money only.
  7. Money makes the rich impudent.
  8. Society has sunk to the level where dirty rich are treated like lesser gods and some persons will kiss their feet for money.
  9. Making money only is a waste of a lifetime. Once you get into the groove, you know nothing else to do.
  10. Money is mostly earned in constant drudgery at the cost of health and happiness.
  11. Those, who demand interest, when it cannot be paid for genuinely verifiable losses and misfortunes and resort to recovery for reducing the unlucky defaulter to penury, are fiends in human shape .
  12. It is not money which makes the rich foolish, but it is their temptation to make more money.
  13. The power of money inspires greed for money.
  14. Money is a vicious contrivance. If you do not have it, you are miserable.
    If you possess it, you are in the perpetual tension to protect and increase it.
  15. Money gives you the illusion of happiness in tension and worries and riches erode your humanity by making you arrogant.
  16. It is not possible to eliminate the profit motive from the society. No person likes to be treated equally in talent, effort or opportune luck.

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In every family, if one is lucky, there appears a figure so marvellously singular, so steeped in wisdom and warmth that he becomes a sort of personal North Star. Rasheed Ahmed Akhund was such a man; measured, principled and enigmatic. A man who, like the best of us, lived not for show but for substance. He belonged to a dwindling class of men who thought deeply, spoke sparingly and forgave quietly.

“A person cannot say that reality is above human comprehension because, being human, he cannot know that there is anything above his comprehension"

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“lf you attempt to prove existence of God with cold logic, you will land him in contradictions. If you feel him warmly, he is universal love and sense of perfection.”

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Book of aphorisms by a Pakistani lawyer

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