“Substantia divitis, urbs fortitudinis ejus ; pavor pauperum egestas eorum.”
“The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.”
“The wealth of the rich man is his fortified city, but poverty is the ruin of the poor.”
“The rich man’s wealth is his strong city. The destruction of the poor is their poverty.”
“The rich man's wealth is his strong city: The destruction of the poor is their poverty.”
Poverty. Diffidence hinders the advancement of the poor, as presumption is too common among the rich. A happy mediocrity is best, ver. 16.
II. Bad men are and shall be forgotten, or spoken of with contempt. When their bodies are putrefying in the grave their names also shall rot. Either they shall not be preserved at all, but buried in oblivion (no good can be said of them, and therefore the greatest kindness that can be done them will be to say nothing of them), or they shall be loathsome, and mentioned with detestation, and that rule of honour, De mortuis nil nisi bonum—Say nothing to the disadvantage of the dead, will not protect them. Where the wickedness has been notorious, and cannot but be mentioned, it ought to be mentioned with abhorrence.