For it is not possible that poverty should hinder a man from living a life worthy of a free person, one willing to work with his own hands — neither in word nor in deed does it force him to anything shameful.
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Some eighty speeches survive from the man Rome nicknamed Golden-Mouth: orations on kingship addressed to Trajan, civic sermons scolding rioting cities, and the famous Euboean discourse — a long, warm portrait of a poor hunter's family that argues honest poverty is no obstacle to a good life.