For Work / Against Work
Debates on the centrality of work

Emile, or On Education

by Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1979)

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“Temperance and work are the two true doctors of man. Work sharpens his appetite, and temperance prevents him from abusing it.”(p.55) (p.56)

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