Afflictions Quote by Jules Verne

That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as…

— William Petty

That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything…

— Seneca the Younger

O blissful poverty! Nature, too partial! to thy lot assigns Health, freedom, innocence, and downy peace, Her real goods; and only mocks the great,…

— Elijah Fenton

Poverty, labor, and calamity are not without their luxuries, which the rich, the indolent, and the fortunate in vain seek for.

— William Hazlitt

I was very sad for many days when I discovered that in the world there were poor people and rich people; and the strange…

— Evita Peron

From all our observations we may collect with certainty, that misery is the lot of man, but cannot discover in what particular condition it…

— Samuel Johnson

What are riches - grandeur - health itself, to the luxury of a pure conscience, the health of the soul; - and what the…

— Ann Radcliffe

Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent

— Plato

All this [wealth] excludes but one evil, poverty.

— Samuel Johnson

A society which reverences the attainment of riches as the supreme felicity will naturally be disposed to regard the poor as damned ... if…

— R. H. Tawney

In Utopia, where every man has a right to everything, they all know that if care is taken to keep the public stores full,…

— Thomas More

I knew the poor, I knew the hideous death theydie, when famine lays its bleak hand on the door; I knew the rich, sated…

— Anonymous