“Work is the best and worst of all things; the best of it is voluntary, the worst of it is servile.”
                                        
                                        Happy Farmers 
Alain On Happiness (1928)
                                    
“Work is the best and worst of all things; the best of it is voluntary, the worst of it is servile.”
                                        
                                        Happy Farmers 
Alain On Happiness (1928)
                                    
                                        
                                        On Private Life 
Alain On Happiness (1928)
                                    
Statement of 1931, as quoted by Marcel Gauchet, Realms of Memory: Rethinking the French Past, Vol. 1 - Conflicts and Divisions, edited by Pierre Nora and Lawrence Kritzman, p. 266 ISBN 9780231084048
                                        
                                        Happiness if Generous 
Alain On Happiness (1928)