Plato Quotes About Poverty
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Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
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Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty, I answered. One produces luxury and idleness and a passion for novelty, the other meanness and bad workmanship and revolution into the bargain.
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There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.
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All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
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Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.
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The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.
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The form of law which I propose would be as follows: In a state which is desirous of being saved from the greatest of all plagues-not faction, but rather distraction-there should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor, again, excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil . . . Now the legislator should determine what is to be the limit of poverty or of wealth.
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Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.
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