Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.
This, on the other hand, is a rightly obscure line from Gregory the Theologian's Epistle 49 but one which made me think he had perhaps not forgotten the letter to the Thessalonians:
My greatest business always is to keep free from business.
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