The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower, or because God our Lord, seeing that it would be good for them, allows them to melt into tears. But this does not mean that they have greater charity or that they are more effective than others who enjoy no tears.
The beloved of the Almighty are: the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich.
Tears are the noble language of the eye.
Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.
About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.
Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
Greed and Gain, grim guardians of the great god Mammon, continually cry in the ears of the poor, 'Give us your little ones!' And forever do the poor push out their little ones at the imperious ukase, feeding the children to a blind Hunger that is never filled.
The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.
The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.