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Choose honest poverty, not dishonest wealth;
The one earns pity, the other but reproof.

καλῶς πένεσθαι μᾶλλον ἢ πλουτεῖν κακῶς·
τὸ μὲν γὰρ ἔλεον, τὸ δ᾿ ἐπιτίμησιν φέρει.

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