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Poverty is not dishonourable in itself, but only when it arises from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.
Poverty is not dishonourable in itself, but only when it arises from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.
Approximate author period: c. 83 AD · classical
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- Plutarch
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- Approximate author period: c. 83 AD · classical
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- Book of Wise Sayings (1893) (1893 AD)
Saying 472 · printed source label: Plutarch · entry translator not specified
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