#poor man

Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence. ↗

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#desire #every #man #offence #poor

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture. ↗

— Plautus

#into #makes #man #partnership #poor

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible. ↗

— Michelangelo

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Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#discussion #enemy #every #free #free discussion

I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

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A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money. ↗

— W. C. Fields

#money #nothing #poor #poor man #rich

It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock. ↗

— Ovid

#ever #flock #his #man #poor

Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth. ↗

— Sydney Madwed

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Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse. ↗

— Abu Bakr

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Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality. ↗

— Lord Acton

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