Leisure

"He allowed my cattle to wander, as you see, and myself to play what I would on the rustic reed" — how greatly do we value this leisure, which is passed among the gods, which makes gods?

For to none do they owe more than to those by whose grace they may enjoy untroubled leisure.

And so those to whom public security contributes much toward the purpose of living well must needs honor the author of this good as a parent — much more, indeed, than those restless men set in the midst of affairs, who owe much to their princes but also charge much to their account, whom no liberality can ever so fully satisfy as to glut their desires, which grow while they are filled.

But if that commonwealth which we imagine for ourselves is nowhere to be found, leisure begins to be necessary for all, since the one thing that might have been preferred to leisure exists nowhere.

On this very question two schools above all are at variance, the Epicureans and the Stoics, but each sends us to leisure by a different road.

Add now that, by the law of Chrysippus, a man is permitted to live in leisure—I do not say to endure leisure, but to choose it.

men obtain leisure from themselves with more difficulty than from the law.

The whole house lamented the leisure of its old master, and did not end its grief until his work was restored to him.

Withdraw yourself, therefore, dearest Paulinus, from the crowd, and, after being buffeted more than your span of years warranted, retire at last into a more peaceful harbour.

Even draught-players and jesters do something, but all these are at leisure, for they might go and do something better.