From Classical Sanskrit Poetry (only in translation)
On Wealth:
What you give to charity
and what you use for day-to-day
That I hold your wealth to be.
The rest, with someone else will stay.
With a hoarder’s wealth others toy —
It is like honey, which some amass,
while others enjoy.
— Bana Bhatta (7th Century) Sanskrit poet
For Ron Paul’s and other Tea Partiers’ Delight:
If the bureaucrat could never eat
his mother’s flesh while in her womb,
the only reason for this feat was,
at that time, he had no teeth!
— Prakashavarsha (9th century) Sanskrti poet A.N.D. Haksar’s translation of
Subhaashitaavali
(Penguin Classics, 2007).
Money causes pain in getting;
In the keeping, pain and fretting;
Pain in loss and Pain in spending.
Damn, the pain never ending!
— From the Panchatantra
(2nd Century AD), A W Ryder