Poverty is easy to bear if it is only temporary, easier still if it is an entirely voluntary burden.
It's definitely not the case that every child living in poverty is eligible for free school lunches.
No one is kept in poverty by a shortness in the supply of riches, there is more than enough for all.
There's a lot of money in wars, except in the war on poverty. Can't make any bread helping the poor.
If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.
Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.