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AnSionnachRua · 3860 days ago · link · · parent · post: 2nd Bi-Weekly Give Me a Quote from Something You've Been Reading Lately
The Bible legend tells us that the absence of labour - idleness - was a condition of the first man's blessedness before the Fall. Fallen man has retained a love of idleness, but the curse weighs on the race not only because we have to seek our bread in the sweat of our brows, but because our moral nature is such that we cannot both be idle and at ease. An inner voice tells us we are in the wrong if we are idle. If man could find a state in which he felt that though idle he was fulfilling his duty, he would have found one of the conditions of man's primitive blessedness.
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace.