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PAUPERTATEM SUMMIS
ingeniis obesse ne provehantur.[1]
Poverty prevents the advancement of the best of abilities
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Dextra tenet lapidem, manus altera sustinet alas.
Ut me pluma levat, sic grave mergit onus
Ingenio poteram superas volitare per arces
Me nisi paupertas invida deprimeret.
My right hand holds a rock, the other bears wings. As the feathers lift me, so the heavy weight drags me down. By my mental gifts I could have flown through the heights of heaven, if malign poverty did not hold me back.
Notes:
1. For the sentiment cf. Juvenal, Satires 3.164-5: ‘it is hard for people to rise when straitened circumstances stand in the way of their natural abilities.’
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