
After promising to give $800 million to poor Filipinos if she becomes president, quoted in The Philippine Daily Inquirer (March 1998).
Source: Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
After promising to give $800 million to poor Filipinos if she becomes president, quoted in The Philippine Daily Inquirer (March 1998).
“You will always be poor, if you are poor, Aemilianus. Wealth is given to-day to none save the rich.”
Semper eris pauper, si pauper es, Aemiliane;
Dantur opes nulli nunc, nisi divitibus.
Semper eris pauper, si pauper es, Aemiliane;
Dantur opes nulli nunc, nisi divitibus.
V, 81 (Loeb translation).
Epigrams (c. 80 – 104 AD)
“Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.”
Lucy Parsons: Freedom, Equality & Solidarity - Writings & Speeches, 1878-1937
Speech (26 May 1988), quoted in "Las frases para el bronce de Pinochet."
1980s
“time wasted is not always a waste of time.”
Source: Seaside
“each generation wastes a little more
of the future with greed and lust for riches”
archy and mehitabel (1927), what the ants are saying
“The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.”
Ægeus, Frag. 7