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Happiness then stands not in amusement; in fact the very notion

is absurd of the End being amusement, and of one's toiling and

enduring hardness all one's life long with a view to amusement:

for everything in the world, so to speak, we choose with some

further End in view, except Happiness, for that is the End

comprehending all others. Now to take pains and to labour with a

view to amusement is plainly foolish and very childish: but to

amuse one's self with a view to steady employment afterwards, as

Anacharsis says, is thought to be right: for amusement is like

rest, and men want rest because unable to labour continuously.

Rest, therefore, is not an End, because it is adopted with a view

to Working afterwards.