Penury may involve inconvenience and hardship but it carries with it no discredit, since poverty is frequently a mark not of weakness of character but of sheer misfortune. Demades. On the Twelve Years. Speech 1. Section 8.
Image: Youth as a Lamp Bearer (Roman, Pompeii, 20-10 BC) at the Getty Villa courtesy of Wikimedia Commons contributors Dave and Margie Hill (digitally enhaced).
Image: Youth as a Lamp Bearer (Roman, Pompeii, 20-10 BC) at the Getty Villa courtesy of Wikimedia Commons contributors Dave and Margie Hill (digitally enhaced).
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