Poverty is not a mark of weakness but sheer misfortune

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).

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