About Quote by Pericles

Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.…

— Pericles

Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to acknowledge but…

— Thucydides

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

— Confucius

As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

— Pericles

If either wealth or poverty are come by honesty, there is no shame.

— Confucius

It has always been incomprehensible for me: people are ashamed of the poverty but aren't ashamed of the wealth.

— Faina Ranevskaya

Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.

— Jane Austen

Poverty is, except where there is an actual want of food and raiment, a thing much more imaginary than real. The shame of poverty--the…

— William Cobbett

It is not poverty so much as pretence that harasses a ruined man--the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse--the keeping up…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse…

— Washington Irving

It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than poverty and…

— William James

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

— Anonymous