2.
For there are certain subjects about which you can write even while travelling in a gig, and there are also subjects which need a study-chair, and quiet, and seclusion.
Nevertheless I ought to accomplish something even on days like these,—days which are fully employed, and indeed from morning till night.
For there is never a moment when fresh employments will not come along; we sow them, and for this reason several spring up from one.
Then, too, we keep adjourning our own cases, saying: “As soon as I am done with this, I shall settle down to hard work,” or: “If I ever set this troublesome matter in order, I shall devote myself to study.”
Book: Moral Letters Vol II
Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Author: Seneca
Chapter: On business as the enemy of philosophy
Location: Chapter 72, Section 2
Content:
2.
For there are certain subjects about which you can write even while travelling in a gig, and there are also subjects which need a study-chair, and quiet, and seclusion.
Nevertheless I ought to accomplish something even on days like these,—days which are fully employed, and indeed from morning till night.
For there is never a moment when fresh employments will not come along; we sow them, and for this reason several spring up from one.
Then, too, we keep adjourning our own cases, saying: “As soon as I am done with this, I shall settle down to hard work,” or: “If I ever set this troublesome matter in order, I shall devote myself to study.”