There are people who do not work at all during all their lives long, and yet they live better than those that do work.

How is that?
And the toilers--they are merely unfortunate--horses! Others ride on them, they suffer and that's all.
But they have their justification before God.

They will be asked: 'To what purpose did you live ?' Then they will say: 'We had no time to think of that.

We worked all our lives.' And I--what justification have I?
And all those people who give orders--how will they justify themselves?
To what purpose have they lived?
It is my idea that everybody necessarily ought to know, to know firmly what he is living for." He became silent, and, tossing his head up, exclaimed in a heavy voice: "Can it be that man is born merely to work, acquire money, build a house, beget children and--die?
No, life means something.

A man is born, he lives and dies.