Quotes by Subject:

Poverty

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty. – Socrates.

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. – Aristotle.

Laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes. - Benjamin Franklin.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. – Aristotle.

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue. - Benjamin Franklin.

Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. - Benjamin Franklin.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles. - Plato.