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Emil Cioran

Quote of Emil Cioran: The poor, by thinking unceasingly of...


Biography - Emil Cioran:

Romanian philosopher and essayist, who published works in both Romanian and French.
Born: 1911 - Died: 1995
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: Romania

The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.



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Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.





Money often costs too much.





Silver is worth less than gold, gold less than virtue.





Esteem money neither more nor less than it deserves, it is a good servant and a bad master.





For the use of words, and thus of a book, is to point beyond themselves to a world of life and experience that is not mere words or even ideas. Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life.





Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.







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Emil Cioran also said...


I have decided not to oppose anyone ever again, since I have noticed that I always end by resembling my latest enemy.





A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.





Our place is somewhere between being and nonbeing — between two fictions.





The essential has never required the least talent.





One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.












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