Book X, 1177b.4
Nicomachean Ethics
“We make war that we may live in peace.”
“The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.”
William Hazlitt, in The Spirit of the Age (1825)
Misattributed
“The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.”
"Mr. Brougham — Sir F. Burdett" http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Spirit_of_the_Age/Mr._Brougham-Sir_F._Burdett
The Spirit of the Age (1825)
“Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.”
Act V, scene viii. Compare: "Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure", William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act iii, scene 2
The Old Bachelor (1693)
“Having the foresight to plan to earn a living, is half of the peace and leisure in life.”
Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.78, p. 204
General Quotes
Speech at the national convention of the American Legion, in Nashville, Tennessee (August 31, 2004) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5865710/
2000s, 2004
1920s, Ways to Peace (1926)
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 160
