Post #3260

Poverty makes people satirical, soberly, sadly, bitterly satirical.
—James Hain Friswell

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Post #3162

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
—John F. Kennedy

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Post #3003

To have nothing is not poverty.
—Martial

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Post #2936

There is nothing perfectly secure but poverty.
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Post #1690

Not he who has little, but he who wishes for more, is poor.
—Seneca

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Post #1487

Few things in this world trouble people more than poverty, or the fear of poverty; and indeed it is a sore affliction; but like all other ills that flesh is an heir to, it has an antidote, its reliable remedy. The judicious application of industry, prudence, and temperance is a certain cure.
—Hosea Ballou

Post #1419

Poverty is dishonorable, not in itself, but when it is a proof of laziness, intemperance, luxury, and carelessness; whereas in a person that is temperate, industrious, just and valiant, and who uses all his virtue for the public good, it shows a great and lofty mind.

—Plutarch 

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Post #1348

Not to be able to bear poverty is a shameful thing, but not to know how to chase it away by work is a more shameful thing yet.

—Pericles

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