As for the future, however, it is my judgment that if we turn to idleness and the luxurious self-indulgence of men of coarse natures, who count toil misery and living without toil happiness, we shall soon be of little account in our own eyes and shall soon lose all the blessings that we have.
Cyropaedia. Xenophon. Walter Miller (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1914.
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