Scipio the Elder used to spend on literature all the leisure he could win from his military and political duties, and he used to say that he was busiest whenever he had nothing to do. 1
1 Cf. Cicero, De officiis, iii. 1 ‘numquam se minus otiosum esse quam cum otiosus . . . esset.’
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
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