SO GOOD QUOTES

“But how will I support myself?” such a person asks. You have hands, you have skills—hire yourself out as a laborer or a servant.  Life has many possibilities and opportunities.  Are you unable to work? Then beg from those who have means. Do you think it shameful to beg? You will be put to even greater shame if you default on a loan. In any case, I do not make these recommendations as if laying down a law, but rather to emphasize that anything is preferable to borrowing. The ant is able, without begging or borrowing, to feed itself, while the bee gives what remains of its own food to the queen, which nature has given neither hands nor any skills. And you, a human being, the inventive animal, can you not find even one contrivance out of so many that are available for the preservation of life?

—St. Basil the Great, On Social Justice