“Even the Strongest Minds Cannot, with impunity, defy the prejudices of the age.”
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright
The Thirty Years War
“That happy age when a man can be idle with impunity.”
"Rip Van Winkle".
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819–1820)
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George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
Denis Diderot (1713–1784) French Enlightenment philosopher and encyclopædist
"On Women" (1772), as translated in Selected Writings (1966) edited by Lester G. Crocker
“Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man happy.”
Call no man happy till he is dead.
Also attributed to Sophocles in "Oedipus The King".
Hold him alone truly fortunate who has ended his life in happy well-being.
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, lines 928–929. Variant translations:
“The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.”
Brenda Ueland (1891–1985) Journalist and writer
Vincent Massey (1887–1967) Governor General of Canada
Address at the Convocation of the University of Manitoba, October 28, 1952
Speaking Of Canada - (1959)
Hugh Blair (1718–1800) British philosopher
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 345.
“Let the man who does not wish to be idle fall in love!”
Qui nolet fieri desidiosus, amet!
Book I; ix, 46
Amores (Love Affairs)