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Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts.

— Apollonius of Tyana

Paupertas omnium artium repertrix.

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I saw the Indian Brahmans living on the earth and not on it, walled without walls, and with no possessions except the whole world.

Ram Swarup (2000)

To speak falsely is the mark of a slave, but the truth is noble.

Make yourself known as a philosopher, that is a free man.

Plato said that virtue has no master. If a person does not honor this principle and rejoice in it, but is purchasable for money, he creates many masters for himself.

The soul that does not consider the question of the body’s self-sufficiency cannot make itself self-sufficient.

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

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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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