Virtue often trips and falls on the sharp-edges rock of poverty.

  • -- Eugene Sue 尤金·苏

美德常在贫穷的磐石上跌倒。

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Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.

希望是活着的状态所固有的最早的和最不可缺少的美德。如果要维持生命,就必须保持希望,即使信心受损,信任也会受损。

We hold the moral obligation of providing for old age, helpless infancy, and poverty is far superior to that of supplying the invented wants of courtly extravagance.

我们在道义上有责任赡养老人、无助的婴儿和贫困,这远远超过满足宫廷奢侈的虚构需求。

It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.

一个人的出身与父母无关,只要他是一个有价值的人。

Poverty is unnecessary.

贫穷是不必要的。