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a peasant’s fortune.
Brandon Sanderson • The Well of Ascension: Book Two of Mistborn
Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth. Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor—poor farmers.
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
Far more numerous were the yeomen. Their land was often rented from those above them, though many owned portions as well, and they farmed it all themselves. In terms of pure wealth, some were richer than some of the gentlemen, but theirs was a life of active involvement on the land. Most of their servants were not of a personal or domestic nature,
... See moreRuth Goodman • How to Be a Tudor
Mastery is the best goal because the rich can't buy it, the impatient can't rush it, the privileged can't inherit it, and nobody can steal it. You can only earn it through hard work.
― Derek Sivers
The stress of farming had far-reaching consequences. It was the foundation of large-scale political and social systems. Sadly, the diligent peasants almost never achieved the future economic security they so craved through their hard work in the present. Everywhere, rulers and elites sprang up, living off the peasants’ surplus food and leaving them
... See moreYuval Noah Harari • Sapiens
Des familles plébéiennes, je n’ai rien à dire, sinon qu’elles servent seulement à augmenter le nombre des gens qui vivent, sans mériter d’autre renommée ni d’autre éloge des grandeurs qui leur manquent.
Miguel de Cervantes • Don Quichotte (French Edition)
While the races that do not accord to the individual a property in the soil, allow him at least a right to the fruits of his labor, — that is to say, to his harvest, — precisely the contrary custom prevailed among the Greeks.
