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- Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.
- Antiphanes
- Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
- Frederick Douglass (1817 - 1895), Speech, April 1886
- You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Odes
- It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
- Juvenal (55 AD - 127 AD), Satires
- It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
- Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
- Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic
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