Juvenal Quotes About Poverty

• It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

  Juvenal

  Inspirational, Men, Quality

  "Satires". Book by Juvenal, III, line 164, 1890.

• Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloak

  Juvenal

  People, Poverty, Poor

• Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule.

  Juvenal

  Men, Unhappy, Woe

• Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.

  Juvenal

  Men, Poverty, Ridiculous

  "Satires". Book by Juvenal, III, line 152, 1890.

• A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.

  Juvenal

  Men, Poverty, Faces

• Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

  Juvenal

  Ambitious, Poverty, States

• They do not easily rise whose abilities are repressed by poverty at home.
  [Lat., Haud facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat
  Res angusta domi.]

  Juvenal

  Home, Poverty, Ability

• Cheerless poverty has no harder trial than this, that it makes men the subject of ridicule.
  [Lat., Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se
  Quam quod ridiculos homines facit.]

  Juvenal

  Men, Poverty, Trials

• The traveler without money will sing before the robber.
  [Lat., Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.]

  Juvenal

  Poverty, Traveler, Robbers

• It is unmistakable madness to live in poverty only to die rich.

  Juvenal

  Poverty, Madness, Rich

• The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.

  Juvenal

  Men, Hardship, Poverty

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

  Juvenal

  Laughter, Mind, Poverty

  Juvenal (1806). “The satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis, tr. into Engl. verse, by W. Gifford, with notes”, p.84

• Rarely they rise by virtue's aid who lie plunged in the depth of helpless poverty.

  Juvenal

  Lying, Poverty, Depth

  Juvenal, Horace, Persius (1822). “The satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis”, p.152

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