“If it is true that one is poor on account of all the things one wants, the ambitious and the avaricious languish in extreme poverty.”

— Jean de La Bruyère, book Les Caractères

S'il est vrai que l'on soit pauvre par toutes les choses que l'on désire, l'ambitieux et l'avare languissent dans une extrême pauvreté.
Aphorism 49
Les Caractères (1688), Des biens de fortune

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