Art Quote by Sarah Bernhardt

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

— Anonymous

He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

He who accepts his poverty unhurt I'd say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret…

— Geoffrey Chaucer

Poverty is the great reality. That is why the artist seeks it.

— Anais Nin

Whatever may be said in praise of poverty, the fact remains that it is not possible to live a really complete or successful life…

— Wallace D. Wattles

True it is, that he who has taken off his affection from the goods of this world has already sold all, and has made…

— John Calvin

If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.

— Ben Jonson

Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.

— Seneca the Younger

He is the rich man in whom the people are rich, and he is the poor man in whom the people are poor; and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poverty persuades a man to do and suffer everything that he may escape from it.

— Lucian

He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

— Victor Hugo

“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