Juvenal Quotes About Poverty
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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
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O Poverty, thy thousand ills combined Sink not so deep into the generous mind, As the contempt and laughter of mankind.
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Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.
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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.
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Cheerless poverty has no harder trial than this, that it makes men the subject of ridicule. [Lat., Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se Quam quod ridiculos homines facit.]
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It is unmistakable madness to live in poverty only to die rich.
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The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
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Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule.
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A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.
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Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloak
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Rarely they rise by virtue's aid who lie plunged in the depth of helpless poverty.
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They do not easily rise whose abilities are repressed by poverty at home. [Lat., Haud facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat Res angusta domi.]
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The traveler without money will sing before the robber. [Lat., Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.]
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