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“Happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.”

May War Depends Busy Leisure Nicomachean Ethics

Book:Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

“It is generally recognized that creativity requires leisure, an absence of rush, time for the mind and imagination to float and wander and roam, time for the individual to descend into the depths of his or her psyche, to be available to barely audible signals rustling for attention. Long periods of time may pass in which nothing seems to be happening. But we know that kind of space must be created if the mind is to leap out of its accustomed ruts, to part from the mechanical, the known, the familiar, the standard, and generate a leap into the new.”

Source: The Psychology of Romantic Love: Romantic Love in an Anti-Romantic Age

“Do not say, 'When I have leisure, I will study,' because you may never have leisure.”

May Study Leisure Procrastination

Author:Hillel the Elder

“The houses of this country (Maharashtra) are exceedingly strong and built solely of stone and iron. The hatchet-men of the Govt. in the course of my marching do not get sufficient strength and power (i.e. time) TO DESTROY AND RAZE THE TEMPLES OF THE INFIDELS that meet the eye on the way. You should appoint an orthodox inspector (darogha) who may afterwards DESTROY THEM AT LEISURE AND DIG UP THEIR FOUNDATIONS”

Men Way Should May Country Eye Courses House Strong Built Stones Foundation Sufficient Temples Iron Orthodox Leisure Infidel Inspectors Hatchet Maharashtra

Author:Aurangzeb