Work makes prosperous days, wine makes happy Sundays.- Wine and Hashish

The will to work must dominate, for art is long and time is brief.

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

How many years of fatigue and punishment it takes to learn the simple truth that work, that disagreeable thing, is the only way of not suffering in life, or at all events, of suffering less.

The more one works, the better one works, and the more one wants to work. The more one produces, the more fertile one grows.