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

No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less

If you have it (love), you don't need to have anything else. If you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

As a remedy against all ills; poverty, sickness, and melancholy only one thing is absolutely necessary; a liking for work

Any healthy man can go without food for two days, but not without poetry

There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.