It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloak
Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule.
Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.
Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.
A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.
Rarely they rise by virtue's aid who lie plunged in the depth of helpless poverty.
They do not easily rise whose abilities are repressed by poverty at home. [Lat., Haud facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat Res angusta domi.]
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.]
The traveler without money will sing before the robber. [Lat., Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.]
It is unmistakable madness to live in poverty only to die rich.
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.
O Poverty, thy thousand ills combined Sink not so deep into the generous mind, As the contempt and laughter of mankind.
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