Benevolence Quote by Herbert Spencer

...ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the obscurity and…

— Russell Kirk

The haggardness of poverty is everywhere seen contrasted with the sleekness of wealth, the exhorted labour of some compensating for the idleness of others,…

— Jean-Baptiste Say

“He who restrains himself within the limits prescribed by nature, will not feel poverty; he who exceeds them will always be poor, however great…

— Seneca

“The extreme inequalities in the manner of living of the several classes of mankind, the excess of idleness in some, and of labour in…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

But poverty, with most who whimper forth Their long complaints, is self-inflicted woe; The effect of laziness, or sottish write.

— William Cowper

Conquer with forbearance The excesses of insolence.

— Anonymous

Where the vivacity of the intellect and the strength of the passions exceed the development of the moral faculties the character is likely to…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

“Famine is good to the corn-merchant, evil to the poor, and indifferent to those whose fortunes can at all times command a superfluity. Ambition…

— Christopher Hitchens

“It is the fate of those who toil at the lower employments of life, to be rather driven by the fear of evil, than…

— Kory Stamper

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

— Juvenal

“To attempt to force them into a peonage of starvation and intimidated despair will be unsuccessful. They can be citizens of the highest type,…

— John Steinbeck

“The people suffer from famine because of the multitude of taxes consumed by their superiors.”

— Lao Tzu