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Quotation from Pericles' Funeral Oration by Pericles
“wealth we employ more for use than for show, and place the real disgrace of poverty not in owning to the fact but in declining the struggle against it.”
Pericles' Funeral Oration, Book II.40, trans. Richard Crawley (1874)
Part of the description of Athenian character: refinement without extravagance and honest labour against want.
Citation: "wealth we employ more for use than for show, and place the real disgrace of poverty not in owning to the fact but in declining the struggle against it." — Pericles, Pericles' Funeral Oration, Book II.40, trans. Richard Crawley (1874). (id pericles-funeral-oration-q3)
Virtues: Industry, Temperance
Portrait: Discurso funebre pericles, Philipp Foltz, Public domain.
