"The end of labor is to gain..." - Quote by Aristotle
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
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“Happiness is essentially perfect; so that the happy man requires in addition the goods of the body, external goods and the gifts of fortune, in order that his activity may not be impeded through lack of them.”
“A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange. Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not mere companionship.”
“The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.”
More on Work
“The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.”
“We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.”
“The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired.”
More on Leisure
“Many a forenoon have I stolen away, preferring to spend thus the most valued part of the day; for I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days, and spent them lavishly; nor do I regret that I did not waste more of them in the workshop or the teacher's desk.”
“France: As a professional journalist, I like the idea of a society where it is considered an acceptable occupation to basically sit around and drink.”
“To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.”