We have a different attitude to work than you Germans.
Greeks don’t believe that God will like us better because we work hard or because we deny ourselves pleasure. We prefer to believe that God wants us to go to the beach and admire the view. That contemplation of all the unmoved mover’s works is the highest form of moral activity there is. It is the only way of understanding him.
-Ellie to Bernie, in Philip Kerr’s Greeks Bearing Gifts