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)

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

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