overquietness

Updated: May 24, 2025

To strenuous minds there is an inquietude in overquietness and no laboriousness in labor; and to tread a mile after the slow pace of a snail, or the heavy measures of the lazy of Brazilia, were a most tiring penance, and worse than a race of some furlongs at the Olympics.

- Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6