Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Die Leiden des Jungen Werthers (The Sorrows of Young Werther), p. 46

A man who works at another’s will, not for his own passion or his own need, but for money or honor, is always a fool.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on Work

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