Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal. - Anatole France

Penguinia gloried in its wealth. Those who produced the things necessary for life, wanted them; those who did not produce them had more than enough. "But these," as a member of the Institute said, "are necessary economic fatalities." The great Penguin people had no longer either traditions, intellectual culture, or arts. The progress of civilisation manifested itself among them by murderous industry, infamous speculation, and hideous luxury. Its capital assumed, as did all the great cities of the time, a cosmopolitan and financial character. An immense and regular ugliness reigned within it. The country enjoyed perfect tranquillity. It had reached its zenith.

L'homme est ainsi fait qu'il ne se délasse d'un travail que par un autre.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.