Do I say man is not made for an active life? Far from it. But there is a great difference between other men’s occupations and ours. A glance at theirs will make it clear to you. All day long they do nothing but calculate, contrive, consult how to wring profit out of foodstuffs, farms, and the like. But I entreat you to understand what the administration and nature of the world is, and what place a being endowed with reason holds in it; to consider what you are as a person, and in what your good and evil consists.

– Epictetus