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The fields were fruitful and starving men moved on the roads. The granaries were full and the children of the poor grew up rachitic.John Steinbeck
True poverty does not come from God.Yiddish Proverb
He who ashamed of his poverty would be equally proud of his wealth.Author Unknown
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. The pains of power are real; its pleasures imaginary.C. C. Colton
The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power.Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.Erich Fromm
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.Oscar Wilde, The Model Millionaire, 1912
The measure of a man is what he does with power.Pittacus
Most powerful is he who has himself in his power.Seneca