Aristotle·-325 ADHappiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, as we make war that we may live in peace.
Henry David Thoreau·1859I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will... The really diligent student... is as solitary as a dervish in the desert. The farmer can work alone in the field or the woods all day, hoeing or chopping, and not feel lonesome.
Albert Camus·1940To have time was at once the most magnificent and the most dangerous of experiments. Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.
