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Povreté empesche les grands esprits qu’ils ne soyent eslevés.[1]
XV.
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Sans la pierre à mon bras pendant,
Je pourrois hautement voler:
Car la plume ay beaucoup m’aidant,
Pour en haut degré m’eslever:
Beaucoup donc me dois desoler,
Quand mon coeur a malheur si rude,
Qu’il se veut de sçavoir saouler,
Et n’a dequoy suyvre l’estude.
commentaires.
Icy est depeint un jeune homme, à la droite main
duquel est attachee une fort pesante pierre, & sa gau-
che a des aisles, qui le pourroyent eslever hors de la
bourbe, si la pesanteur de la pierre ne l’empeschoit.
Nous voulant par là enseigner, qu’il se trouve assez
de personnes bien nees, & d’un gentil esprit, qui ne se
peuvent faire voir à cause de leur povreté. Et le pis
est, que la povreté est ordinairement le pain quotidien
de la plus part des gents de lettre.
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.’
Related Emblems
- [Alciato, Andrea, 1536: Paupertatem summis ingeniis obesse ne provehantur. Povrete empesche les grandz esperitz quilz ne soient eslevez.]
- [Alciato, Andrea, 1549: Povreté empesche les bons espritz de parvenir.]
- [Alciato, Andrea, 1584: Paupertatem summis ingeniis obesse, ne provehantur. Que pauvreté est cause que les bons esprits ne sont advancez.]
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