“The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it. ”
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“The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it. ”
“Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel”
“Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week”
“Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man”
“A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage”
“To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.”
“Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up”
“When a man's busy, why leisure strikes him as wonderful pleasure: faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightaway he wants to be busy”
“The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.”
“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land”
“Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.”
“The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it. ”
“People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something”
“Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know”
“No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist”
“He who sleeps half a day has won half a life”
“Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.”
“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.”
“A man who does nothing never has time to do anything”
“There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work”