Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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Wealth, and poverty; the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
discontent / Poverty / wealth
There seem to be two causes of the deterioration of the arts. What are they? Wealth, I said, and poverty. How do they act? The process is as follows: When a potter becomes rich, will he, think you, any longer take the same pains with his art? Certainly not. He will grow more and more indolent and careless? Very true. And the result will be that he becomes a worse potter? Yes; he greatly deteriorates.
arts / deterioration / Poverty / wealth
The mere difficulty of getting hold of a house is one of the worst aggravations of poverty.
He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!
The important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern societies especially.
In the past, the poverty they shared had a certain sweetness about it. When the end of the day came and they would eat their dinner in silence with the oil lamp between them, there was a secret joy in such simplicity, such retrenchment.
Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first of all, who lacked everything and who envied practically nothing.