Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

L'homme est ainsi fait qu'il ne se délasse d'un travail que par un autre.

Anatole France

The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

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Leisure Staying busy Human nature

Author

Anatole France

Source

The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

Medium

Novel

Language

French

Time

1881 1880s 19th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

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France Europe

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Citation

France, Anatole. Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard [The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard]. Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1881, pt. 2, ch. 4.

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One must have chaos inside oneself to give birth to a dancing star.

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Friedrich Nietzsche
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Time
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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Also sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen [Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None]. Chemnitz: Ernst Schmeitzner, 1883, pt. 1.

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra, edited by Robert Pippin, translated by Adrian Del Caro. Cambridge University Press, 2006, pt. 1.

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In this war, things get confused out there. Power, ideals, the old morality, practical military necessity. But out there with these natives, it must be a temptation to be God. 'Cause there's a conflict in every human heart, between the rational and the irrational, between good and evil, and good does not always triumph. Sometimes, the dark side overcomes what Lincoln called the better angels of our nature. Every man has got a breaking point. You and I have one. Walt Kurtz has reached his and very obviously, he has gone insane.

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Medium
Film
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Language
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Time
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Another quote originally in French

Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgement on him.

Michel de Montaigne

Essays

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Contradictory nature of man Nature of man

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Michel de Montaigne
Source
That Men by Various Means Arrive at the Same End Essays
Medium
Essay
Language
French
Time
1580 1580s 16th century
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Original Citation

De Montaigne, Michel. "Par Divers Moyens On Arrive a Pareille Fin [That Men by Various Means Arrive at the Same End]." Essais [Essays]. Paris: Simon Millanges and Jean Richer, 1580.

Current Citation

De Montaigne, Michel. "We Reach the Same End by Discrepant Means." The Complete Essays, edited and translated by M. A. Screech. Penguin Classics, 1993.