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In every sorrowing soul I pour'd delight,
And poverty stood smiling in my sight.

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There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind.

Iliad (-750)

Think not to match yourself against gods, for men that walk the earth cannot hold their own with the immortals.

Iliad (-750)

Who dares think one thing, and another tell,
My heart detests him as the gates of hell.

Iliad (-750)

There is the heat of Love,
the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover's whisper,
irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.

Iliad (-750)

A glorious death is his
Who for his country falls.

Iliad (-750)

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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook (1962)

It is better to be poor and walk in integrity than to be stupid and speak lies.

Solomon

If a poor person envies a rich person, he is no better than the rich person.

Leo Tolstoy

The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

Emil Cioran The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

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