"A life without friendship or leisure lacks a specific something, for which no amount of respect can compensate. This is why moralists from Aristotle and Confucius onwards have cautioned against excess specialization. Single-minded concentration on one small branch of art or science may enrich the common stock, but only at the cost of deforming the individual artist or scientist. Of course, those in possession of the full set of basic goods may reasonably strive for additional, more specific goods. We have no wish to make mediocre generalists of everyone. But no one, however successful in a single domain, can claim to lead a good life if he lacks the rudiments of health, leisure, personality and so forth."
- Robert and Edward Skidelsky, How Much is Enough
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