"The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison."
"Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and that's even truer. But beggary, honoured sir, beggary is a vice. In poverty you may still retain your innate nobility of soul, but in beggary--never--no one. For beggary a man is not chased out of human society with a stick, he is swept out with a broom, so as to make it as humiliating as possible; and quite right, too, forasmuch as in beggary as I am ready to be the first to humiliate myself."
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Source: The Brothers Karamazov. Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1879 - 1880.
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