Discontent Quote by Plato

“Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.”

— Plato

Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual flabbiness, to…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Wealth brings a heavy purse; poverty, a light spirit.

— Leo Tolstoy

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

— Coco Chanel

“What is Poverty? A hateful good; a mother of health; a putting away of cares; a discoverer of wisdom; business without injury; ownership without…

— Secundus the Silent

Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— William Hazlitt

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

Wealth is certainly a most desirable thing, but poverty has its sunny side, and one of the sweet uses of adversity is the genuine…

— Louisa May Alcott

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

— Anonymous

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

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