“But whatever may be said about the life of work,
There is no treasure quite like living at one's ease.”
Mais, quoy que soit du laboureux mestier,
Il n'est tresor que de vivre a son aise.
Source: Le Grand Testament (The Great Testament) (1461), Line 1501; "Ballade: Les Contrediz de Franc Gontier (Ballade: Franc Gontier Refuted)".
Original
Mais, quoy que soit du laboureux mestier, Il n'est tresor que de vivre a son aise.
Le Grand Testament (The Great Testament) (1461)
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Francois Villon 18
Mediæval French poet 1431–1463Related quotes

“Whatever is well conceived is clearly said,
And the words to say it flow with ease.”
Ce que l'on conçoit bien s'énonce clairement,
Et les mots pour le dire arrivent aisément.
Canto I, l. 153
The Art of Poetry (1674)

Source: Earthsea Books, The Other Wind (2001), Chapter 5 “Rejoining” (p. 284)

Return from the Excursion, Riders on Earth (1978)

"Creyó por primera vez entender porqué se decía que la vida es sueño: si uno vive bastante, los hechos de su vida, como los de un sueño, su vuelven incomunicables porque a nadie interesan."
Diario de la Guerra del Cerdo, 1969.
Source: Education of a Wandering Man (1989), Ch. 1

Indian Antiquary (1902) - By Paul Deussen and reprinted in Outline of Indian Philosophy - 1907.
Source: The Interpretation of Cultures (1973), p. 45