“ 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
Author | Denis Diderot |
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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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