Poverty Quotes by Juvenal

Be rich for yourself and poor to your friends.

— Juvenal

Be, as many now are, rich to yourself, poor to your friends.

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal

Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloak

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal

Cheerless poverty has no harder trial than this, that it makes men the subject of ridicule. [Lat., Nil habet infelix paupertas durius…

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal

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

— Juvenal