You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without that, there's no point in working.

Il faut avoir une haute idée, non pas de ce qu'on fait, mais de ce qu'on pourra faire un jour; sans quoi ce n'est pas la peine de travailler.

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