“ a man is free in the forest but he is a slave in the cloister. It may well be that greater strength of character is needed for standing up to solitude than to poverty, for if poverty degrades us segregation depraves. ”
 Denis Diderot, The Nun (1796). copy citation

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Author Denis Diderot
Source The Nun
Topic poverty strength
Date 1796
Language English
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Note Translated by Leonard Tancock
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