Useful Work Versus Useless Toil (Classic Reprint)

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I have put the hope of rest first because it is the simplest and most natural art of our fie. Whatever pleasure there is in some work, t ere is cert y some pain in all work, the beast like pain of stirring up our slumbering energies to action, the beast-like dread of change when things are pretty well with us; and the compensation for this animal pain is animal rest. We must feel while we are working that the time will come when we shall not have to work. Also the rest, when it comes, must be long enough to allow us to enjoy it; it must be longer than is merely necessary for us to recover the strength we have expended in working, and it must be animal rest also in this, that it must not be disturbed by anxiety, else we shall not be able to enjoy it. If we have this amount and kind of rest we shall, so far, be no worse ofi than the beasts.

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Fragment din Munca utila versus truda inutila Am pus speranta odihnei pe primul loc pentru ca este cea mai simpla si mai naturala arta a fiintei noastre. Oricare ar fi placerea in unele lucrari, exista certa durere in toata munca, fiara ca durerea de a provoca energiile noastre adormite la actiune, frica de schimbare, ca o fiara, cand lucrurile sunt destul de bine la noi; iar compensarea acestei dureri de animale este odihna animalelor.