Poverty

"Hic vivimus ambitiosa Paupertate omnes."

"O Poverty, thy thousand ills combined Sink not so deep into the generous mind, As the contempt and laughter of mankind."

"Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator."

"Paupertas fugitur, totoque arcessitur orbe."

"The destitute is the Messenger of God. Whoever denies him denies God and whoever gives him gives God."

"Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil."

"La pauvreté des biens est aysee à guerir; la pauvreté de l'âme, impossible."

"Rattle his bones over the stones! He's only a pauper whom nobody owns!"

"Horrea formicæ tendunt ad inania nunquam Nullus ad amissas ibit amicus opes."

"Inops, potentem dum vult imitari, perit."

"Paupertas … omnes artes perdocet."

"But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate."

"Where are those troops of poor, that throng'd of yore The good old landlord's hospitable door?"

"Whene'er I walk the public ways, How many poor that lack ablution Do probe my heart with pensive gaze, And beg a trivial contribution."

"Non qui parum habet, sed qui plus cupit, pauper est."

"Nemo tam pauper vivit quam natus est."

"Poor people always lose in struggles."

"The poor in Resurrection City have come to Washington to show that the poor in America are sick, dirty, disorganized, and powerless—and they are criticized daily for being sick, dirty, disorganized, and powerless."

"Whene'er I take my walks abroad, How many poor I see!"

"As no one can adventure nearer the throne of God by virtue of his rank, his wealth, or his talent, so no one is kept farther from that throne by his low condition, or by his poverty of wealth, of learning, or of intellect. The prince and the sage are not more welcome to heaven than the poor and ignorant."

"Aspirations pure and high — Strength to do and to endure — Heir of all the Ages, I — Lo! I am no longer poor!"

"It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man."

"There is not such a mighty difference as some men imagine between the poor and the rich; in pomp, show, and opinion, there is a great deal, but little as to the pleasures and satisfactions of life. They enjoy the same earth and air and heavens; hunger and thirst make the poor man's meat and drink as pleasant and relishing as all the varieties which cover the rich man's table; and the labor of a poor man is more healthful, and many times more pleasant, too, than the ease and softness of the rich."

"The world's proverb is, "God help the poor, for the rich can help themselves;" but to our mind, it is just the rich who have most need of Heaven's help. Dives in scarlet is worse off than Lazarus in rags, unless Divine love shall uphold him."

"It was Lazarus faith, not his poverty, which brought him into Abraham's bosom."

"If you are poor now, Æmilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich."

"Even before Covid-19, we squandered a decade in the fight against poverty, with misplaced triumphalism blocking the very reforms that could have prevented the worst impacts of the pandemic."