Pericles Quotes About Poverty

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Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft. We regard wealth as something to be properly used, rather than as something to boast about. As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.
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Funeral Oration, Athens, 430 B.C., in Thucydides 'History of the Peloponnesian War' ii.40, 1 (translation by Rex Warner)

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We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
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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.
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As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.
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"History of the Peloponnesian War (Book 2)". Book by Thucydides, 431 BC.

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