has endowed with intellectual wealth is the happiest; so true it is that the subjective concerns us more than the objective; for whatever the latter may be, it can work only indirectly, secondly, and through the medium of the former -- a truth finely expressed by Lucian: --  the wealth of the soul is the only true wealth, for with all other riches comes a bane even greater than they. The man of inner wealth wants nothing from outside but the negative gift of undisturbed leisure, to develop and mature his intellectual faculties, that is, to enjoy his wealth; in short, he wants permission to be himself, his whole life long, every day and every hour. If he is destined to impress the character of his mind upon a whole race, he has only one measure of happiness or unhappiness -- to succeed or fail in perfecting his powers and completing his work. All else is of small consequence. Accordingly, the greatest minds of all ages have set the highest value upon undisturbed leisure, as worth exactly as much as the man himself. Happiness appears to consist in leisure , says Aristotle; 23 and Diogenes Laertius reports that Socrates praised leisure as the fairest of all possessions . So, in the Nichomachean Ethics , Aristotle concludes that a life devoted to philosophy is the happiest; or, as he says in the Politics, 24 the free exercise of any power, whatever it may be, is happiness . This again, tallies with