1What are you doing, what are you going to do? 1I myself am living a most pleasant — that is, a most idle — life. 1So it is that I do not want to write longer letters, but do want to read them, the one as a pampered man, the other as an idle one. 1For nothing is lazier than the pampered or more curious than the idle. 1Farewell.
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Pliny · Epistulae IX
Pliny, Letter 9.32
A life of idle ease
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