Blaise Pascal (19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Catholic writer.
Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.