“In Australia
Inter alia,
Mediocrities
Think they’re Socrates.”
Peter Porter (1929–2010) British poet
Quoted in Charles Osborne Giving It Away (London: Secker & Warburg, 1986) p. 114.
“Alia poverty poche cose fallano, ma all’ avarizia tutte.”
Part 42.
Translation: Poverty wants few things, avarice everything.
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 246.
Giunta agli Ammaestramenti degli Antichi (republished 1662)
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Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.
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XI, 32 (Loeb translation).
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“All this [wealth] excludes but one evil,—poverty.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
1777
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)
“We all live in a state of ambitious poverty.”
Hic vivimus ambitiosa paupertate omnes.
III, line 182.
Satires, Satire III
Francois Rabelais book Gargantua and Pantagruel
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fifth Book (1564), Ch. 19 : How we arrived at the queendom of Whims or Entelechy
Context: On the third day the sky seemed to us somewhat clearer, and we happily arrived at the port of Mateotechny, not far distant from Queen Whims, alias the Quintessence.
We met full butt on the quay a great number of guards and other military men that garrisoned the arsenal, and we were somewhat frighted at first because they made us all lay down our arms, and in a haughty manner asked us whence we came.
“Poverty is the lack of many things, but avarice is the lack of all things.”
Inopiae desunt multa, avaritiae omnia.
Publilio Siro Latin writer
Maxim 236
Sentences
“Liberals fought poverty and poverty won.”
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As quoted in The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America (2004) by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, p. 10
Post-presidency (1989–2004)