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Juvenal on Poverty

b. 140

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Cheerless poverty has no harder trial than this, that it makes men the subject of ridicule.

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Bitter poverty has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.

They do not easily rise whose abilities are repressed by poverty at home.

The traveler without money will sing before the robber.

We all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

O Poverty, thy thousand ills combined
Sink not so deep into the generous mind,
As the contempt and laughter of mankind.

Here we all live in ambitious poverty.

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