Proverbs

A dog won’t forsake its master because of poverty. (Chinese) An advantage of poverty: your relatives gain nothing by your death. (Yiddish) Hard is the path from poverty to renown. (Roman) Honest poverty is thinly sown. (French) If poverty be your lot, knock only at large gates. (Egyptian) Kin or no kin, woe to him who has nothing. (Italian) Large desire is endless poverty. (Indian) No harsher masters than poverty and want. (Dutch) Nothing to be got without pains but poverty. (French) Painless poverty is better than embittered wealth. (Greek) Patiently bear the burden of poverty. (Roman) Poverty and anger do not agree. (Egyptian) Poverty and hunger have many learned disciples. (German) Poverty and misfortune travel hand in hand. (Mexican) Poverty dulls the wits. (Japanese) Poverty follows the poor. (Yiddish) Poverty has no kin. (Italian) Poverty hides wisdom. (Yiddish) Poverty hinders the greatest talents from advancing. (Roman) Poverty is a daughter of vice. (French) Poverty is a sort of leprosy. (French) Poverty is cunning: it catches even a fox. (German) Poverty is death in another form. (Roman) Poverty is no crime. (Spanish) Poverty is no disgrace, but it is a great inconvenience. (Roman) Poverty is no disgrace, but no honor either. (Yiddish) Poverty is no sin. (Italian) Poverty is no sin, but it is a branch of immorality. (Spanish) Poverty is not possessing few things, but lacking many things. (Roman) Poverty is shunned and treated as a crime throughout the world. (Roman) Poverty is the sixth sense. (German) Poverty makes a man mean. (Roman) Poverty makes quarrels. (Korean) Poverty makes sadness. (Irish) Poverty makes strange bedfellows. (English) Poverty never sped well in love. (Portuguese) Poverty parts friends. (Portuguese) Poverty parts good company. (Irish) Poverty shows itself first in the face. (Yiddish) Poverty shows us who are our friends and who our enemies. (Roman) Poverty tries friends. (Roman) Poverty won’t allow him to lift up his head; dignity won’t allow him to bow it down. (Madagascan) Poverty, that deep disgrace, bids us to do or suffer anything. (Roman) Those who are silent about their poverty fare better than those who beg. (Roman) When industry goes out of the door, poverty comes in at the window. (Dutch) When poverty comes in the door, love flies out the window. (English) A man has his powers and a woman has hers. (Chinese) All power is impatient of a partner. (Roman) He is the most powerful who has himself in his power. (Roman) He who has great power should use it lightly. (Roman) His tongue says little, but powerful is his right arm. (Roman) In seasons of tumult and discord, the worst men have the greatest power. (Roman) In the greatest power exists the least exercise of power. (Roman) In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course. (Roman) Lust of power is the strongest of all passions. (Roman) No one ever held power long by violence. (Roman) No power is strong enough to last. (Unknown) Power always passes from inferior to superior. (Unknown) Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely. (English) Power is easily retained by those arts through which it was first acquired. (Roman) Power is more safely retained by cautious than by severe counsels. (Roman) Power is strengthened by union. (Roman) Power often goes before talent. (Danish) Terrifying are the weaknesses of power. (Greek) The less power a man has, the more he likes to use it. (Chinese) The one who is all powerful still aims at possessing greater power. (Roman) To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful. (Roman) Unless a serpent devour a serpent, it will not become a dragon [i.e., unless one power absorbs another, it will not become a great power]. (German) Use power to curb power. (Chinese)