Otium, quod industriae et studio maxime contrarium videtur, praecipue subnecti debet, non quo evanescit virtus sed quo recreatur: alterum enim etiam inertibus vitandum, alterum strenuis quoque interdum appetendum est, illis ne perpetuam vitam enervem exigant, his ut tempestiva laboris intermissione ad laborandum fiant vegetiores.
Since leisure appears to be diametrically opposed to diligence and study, it has the best claim to be subjoined to them, not leisure by which efficiency loses strength but by which it is revived. For the former is to be avoided even by the lazy, the latter is sometimes to be sought even by the energetic, so that as to the first they do not lead a life of perpetual inactivity, and as to the second that by timely intermission of work they may come the brisker to its resumption.
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