There is, however, nothing wanting to the idleness of a philosopher but a better name, and that meditation, conversation, and reading should be called “work.”

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "There is, however, nothing wanting to the idleness of a philosopher but a better name, and that meditation, conversation, and reading should be called “work.”" in the context of "Jean de La Bruyère, Les Caractères (1688), "Du mérite personnel", Aphorism 12." to mean that wisdom is timeless.