Semper eris pauper, si pauper es, Aemiliane;
Dantur opes nulli nunc, nisi divitibus.
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If poor you are, poor you will always be, For wealth's now given to none but to the rich.
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V, 81, reported in Dictionary of Quotations (Classical) (1906), p. 263.Martial
Qui cum ex fratribus quatuor germanis pariter et uterinis natu minor existeret, tribus aliis nunc castra nunc oppida nunc palatia puerilibus, ut solet haec aetas, praeludiis in sabulo vel pulvere protrahentibus construentibus, modulo suo, solus hic simili praeludio semper ecclesias eligere et monasteria construere tota intentione satagebat.
Gerald of Wales
Non qui parum habet, sed qui plus cupit, pauper est.
Seneca the Younger
Rattle his bones over the stones!
He's only a pauper, whom nobody owns!Thomas Noel
Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby.
Isaac Leib Peretz
Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.
Jean Cocteau
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