Life
Life is wasted in suffering and loss.
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In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money, or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way. If their ostentation does not exceed their fortune, all will be well. But if their ostentation does exceed their fortune they will ruin themselves. In such a country, the greatest fortunes will vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Those who don’t have money will ruin themselves with vain efforts to conceal their poverty.
—Denis Diderot
—Denis Diderot
Thursday, July 14, 2022
