Best poverty & misfortunes Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.”

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

“Convinced that character is all and circumstances nothing, [the Puritan] sees in the poverty of those who fall by the way, not a misfortune to be pitied and relieved, but a moral failing to be condemned, and in riches, not an object of suspicion ... but the blessing which rewards the triumph of energy and will.”

Way Character Fall Energy Moral Poverty Failing Objects Circumstances Blessing Rewards Riches Convinced Triumph Misfortunes Suspicion Relieved Puritan

Book:Religion And The Rise Of Capitalism

Source: Religion And The Rise Of Capitalism

“It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.”

Men Real Poverty Species Connected Inequality One Man Misfortunes Dependence Subordinates

Book:The Portable Voltaire

Source: The Portable Voltaire

“In other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime.”

Country Poverty Crime Misfortunes Other Countries

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“If we remove the hope of profit as a means to alleviate misfortune - poverty, illness, misery, disaster - we shall increase our misfortunes and make them permanent.”

Ifs Mean Poverty Increase Misery Profit Illness Disaster Permanent Remove Misfortunes Alleviate

Author:Leonard Read

“Poverty is one of them kind of misfortunes that we all of us dread but none of us pity.”

Kind Poverty Pity Misfortunes Dread

Book:Everybody's Friend, Or Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor

Source: Everybody's Friend, Or Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor

“If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want Used Suffering Poverty Illness Cease Satisfied Misfortunes Want Something Dissatisfaction World Suffering

Book:Simone Weil

Source: Simone Weil

“There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity and dishonesty. Noble and mysterious triumphs that no eye sees, and no fame rewards, and no flourish of triumph salutes. Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields that have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes.”

Source: Les Misérables

“Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first of all, who lacked everything and who envied practically nothing.”

Firsts Poverty My Family Misfortunes Sunlight Radiant Envied Family First

Author:Albert Camus

“In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.”

Poverty Comfort Misfortunes Refuge True Friend Mischief True Life Misfortunes Of Others Noble Deeds Prime Of Life

Book:Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

“The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.”

Men Powerful Poverty Guarantees Misfortunes Exile

Book:Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

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