From The Essays of Michel de Montaigne, translated by Charles CottonLATELY RETIRED
"When I lately retired to my own house, with a resolution, as much as possibly I could, to avoid all manner of concern in affairs, and to spend in privacy and repose the little remainder of time I have to live, I fancied I could not more oblige my mind than to suffer it at full leisure to entertain and divert itself, which I now hoped it might henceforth do, as being by time become more settled and mature; but I find—
Variam semper dant otia mentem,
[“Leisure ever creates varied thought.”—Lucan, iv. 704]"
From Of Idleness
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