'Tis not the belly's hunger that costs so much, but its pride

A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers. [Lat., Nec rationem patitur, nec aequitate mitigatur nec ulla prece flectitur, populus esuriens.]

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty

Marx was wrong; jealousy and pride, emotional forces, are just as responsible as hunger and necessity for our actions; they explain the whole of History, and the initial fall of man.

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

Hunger follows us like our shadow.