Showing posts with label poor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poor. Show all posts

Sunday, 2 July 2023

Quotes: Seneca

"Being poor is not having too little, it is wanting more." 

–– Seneca (4 BC - AD 65), Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman 

via: Sketchbook 32, 2022, p. 145.

Wednesday, 28 September 2022

Quotes: Alexis de Tocqueville

"The desire of acquiring the comforts of the world haunts the imagination of the poor, and the dread of losing them that of the rich." 

–– Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859), French historian, diplomat, political scientist, political philosopher, and aristocrat 

via: Sketchbook A, 2015, p. 20