Very much firmness and a great scope of spirit is needed for a person in France to do without offices and employment and to consent to stay at his home and not do anything. Nearly no one has enough merit to fill this role worthily, nor enough profundity to prevent his life from seeming empty without what vulgar people call business. However, the leisure of someone who is wise only lacks a better name; someone who calls meditating, speaking, reading, and being tranquil his work.