Plutarch Quotes About Poverty

Quotes about: Poverty

• An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

  Plutarch

  Freedom, Tyrants, Economic Inequality

  "When Inequality Isn't" by John Mauldin, www.forbes.com. March 29, 2014.

• Poverty is dishonorable, not in itself, but when it is a proof of laziness, intemperance, luxury, and carelessness; whereas in a person that is temperate, industrious, just and valiant, and who uses all his virtues for the public good, it shows a great and lofty mind.

  Plutarch

  Luxury, Mind, Use

  Plutarch (2013). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.280, Cosimo, Inc.

• Learn to be pleased with everything, with wealth so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.

  Plutarch

  Balance, Contentment, Obscurity

• Poverty is never dishonourable in itself, but only when it is a mark of sloth, intemperance, extravagance, or thoughtlessness. When, on the other hand, it is the handmaid of a sober, industrious, righteous, and brave man, who devotes all his powers to the service of the people, it is the sign of a lofty spirit that harbours no mean thoughts

  Plutarch

  Mean, Men, Hands

• Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.

  Plutarch

  Extravagance, Poverty, Poor

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