Plenty of people know how to put up with poverty when they are born into it, but to fall from opulence into the direst necessity and somehow find contentment and happiness is something which I cannot understand.
 Denis Diderot, Jacques the Fatalist and his Master (1796). copy citation

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Author Denis Diderot
Source Jacques the Fatalist and his Master
Topic contentment poverty
Date 1796
Language English
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Note Translated by Michael Henry
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