Poverty united to bad conduct utterly destroys and upturns the life of man.
πενία δὲ συγκραθεῖσα δυσσεβεῖ τρόπῳ
ἄρδην ἀνεῖλε καὶ κατέστρεψεν βίον.
ἄρδην ἀνεῖλε καὶ κατέστρεψεν βίον.
Original text (Ancient Greek)
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No man's more fortunate than he who's poor,
Since for the worse his fortune cannot change.
I am a mortal; this very thing is the greatest cause of sorrow in life.
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