The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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William Hazlitt, in The Spirit of the Age (1825)Dag Hammarskjold
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And 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.
Aristotle
Cato tells us that Publius Scipio, who was called Africinus, used to say that he was never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.
Scipio Africanus
Work is the antonym of free time. But not of leisure. Leisure and free time live in two different worlds. We have got into the habit of thinking them the same. Anybody can have free time. Free time is a realizable idea of democracy. Leisure is not fully realizable, and hence an ideal not alone an idea. Free time refers to a special way of calculating a special kind of time. Leisure refers to a state of being, a condition of man, which few desire and fewer achieve.
Sebastian de Grazia
All his leisure clothes were absurd — jokes, really — as though leisure itself had to be ridiculed.
Edmund White
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