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The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work
People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are
Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day
The workingmen are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the more numerous
Labor humanizes, exalts
Fullness is always quiet; agitation will answer for empty vessels only
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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