Whoever first discovered the means to support the poor, increased the number of the miserable; for it would have been more simple for the man who could not live happily to die.
ὁ πρῶτος εὑρὼν διατροφὴν πτωχῷ τέχνην
πολλοὺς ἐποίησεν ἀθλίους· ἁπλοῦν γὰρ ἦν
τὸν μὴ δυνάμενον ζῆν ἀλύπως ἀποθανεῖν.
πολλοὺς ἐποίησεν ἀθλίους· ἁπλοῦν γὰρ ἦν
τὸν μὴ δυνάμενον ζῆν ἀλύπως ἀποθανεῖν.
Original text (Ancient Greek)