Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth.
The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.
Who, being loved, is poor?
The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.