To disgust men with their work is a serious blunder on the part of human society; what could be more natural than their liking for what they do? Work keeps off boredom, vice, and poverty. It is the remedy for all imagined evils. "The souls' joy lies in doing," said Shelly. Active work saves man from himself; indolence make shim a prey to useless regrets, dangerous reveries, enviousness, and hate. Also the first rule of the art of governing is, at all costs, to keep a nation at work. A bored nation is impossible to govern, but a nation occupied by work which it believes to be useful and accomplishes on its own initiative is already a happy one.


Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939) - The Art of Working

André Maurois Quotes

To disgust men with their work is a serious blunder on the part of human society; what could be more natural than their liking for what they do? Work ...

To disgust men with their work is a serious blunder on the part of human society; what could be more natural than their liking for what they do? Work ...

To disgust men with their work is a serious blunder on the part of human society; what could be more natural than their liking for what they do? Work ...

To disgust men with their work is a serious blunder on the part of human society; what could be more natural than their liking for what they do? Work ...