誠実な人間は、自分に幸福が訪れるたび、今度は他人を幸福にするため骨身を惜しまず働いて天に報いなければならないと感じるものだ。富を生み出さずして消費する権利がないのと同様、幸福を生み出さずに消費する権利はない。 - ジョージ・バーナード・ショー (1856 - 1950): 『キャンディダ［カンディダ］』 （戯曲中、牧師モレルから青年レクシーへの台詞）
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An honest man feels that he must pay Heaven for every hour of happiness with a good spell of hard unselfish work to make others happy. We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. - George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950): Candida (In the drama, Morell, a clergyman, says to a young man, Lexy.)
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