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The two conditions that lead others to languor – i.e. leisure and solitude – him made sharper.

— Cicero De Officiis – On Duties (-44)

Ita duae res, quae languorem afferunt ceteris, illum acuebant; otium et solitudo.

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Book III, section 1

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