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PAUPERTATEM SUMMIS IN-
geniis obesse, ne provehantur.[1]
Poverty prevents the advancement of the best of abilities
Emblema 119.
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.
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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