Life is short. Work is for those who will never be able to understand life. Idleness cannot degrade a man. To the discriminating eye it differs from laziness.
La vie est courte. Le travail est pour ceux qui ne la comprendront jamais. La fainéan- tise ne dégrade pas l'homme. A qui voit juste, elle diffère de la paresse.
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Original Citation
Maran, Rene. Batouala. Albin Michel, 1921, ch. 1.
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Current Citation
Maran, Rene. Batouala, translated by Adele Szold Seltzer. Heinemann, 1988, ch. 1.
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