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Idleness Quotes

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Flee idleness... for no one is more exposed to such temptations than he who has nothing to do.
Robert Bellarmine

Authors on Idleness Quotes: Friedrich Nietzsche Thomas Carlyle Francois de La Rochefoucauld Mahatma Gandhi Hesiod Ovid Charles Baudelaire Charles Spurgeon Horace J. G. Holland Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Tim Ferriss Helen Cresswell Walter Savage Landor Lizette Woodworth Reese Eliphas Levi John Quincy Adams Robert Bellarmine Gustav Mahler William Faulkner Magnus Stenbock Benedict of Nursia Robert Pollok George Ticknor Victor Hugo Benjamin Franklin Hippocrates Roswell Dwight Hitchcock Eamon de Valera James Russell Lowell Thales Lawrence Durrell
2.
Idleness is an enemy of the soul.
Benedict of Nursia

3.
Idleness is the parent of psychology.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
Eamon de Valera

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Fear is nothing but idleness of the will.
Eliphas Levi

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As brightness is to rustiness, so labor excelleth idleness.
Thales

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Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.
Hippocrates

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Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.
John Quincy Adams

9.
In idleness there is a perpetual despair.
Thomas Carlyle

10.
Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.
Mahatma Gandhi

11.
Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle.
Gustav Mahler

12.
I live an idle burden to the ground.
Homer

13.
Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man.
J. G. Holland

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We are lazier in our minds than in our bodies.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

15.
How sweet and sacred idleness is!
Walter Savage Landor

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Busy idleness urges us on.
Horace

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Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.
Hesiod

18.
Of all our faults,
the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Idleness breeds our better virtues.
William Faulkner

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Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.
Victor Hugo

21.
Enjoyment stops where indolence begins.
Robert Pollok

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Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?
Friedrich Nietzsche

23.
Idleness only leads to bad deeds
Magnus Stenbock

24.
An army is strengthened by labor and enervated by idleness.
Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

25.
Idleness is paralysis.
Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

26.
Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
Thomas Carlyle

27.
Idleness is the key of beggary.
Charles Spurgeon

28.
Communism is the flower of idleness.
George Ticknor

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Being a useful man has always seemed to me to be something truly hideous.
Charles Baudelaire

30.
Idleness is the great plague of India.
Mahatma Gandhi

31.
Wasting time is negative, but there is something positive about idleness.
Russell Lynes

32.
Writing is busy idleness.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Love is born of idleness and, once born, by idleness is fostered.
Ovid

34.
I'm not a fan of idleness, except in small doses.
Tim Ferriss

35.
I wonder at the idleness of tears.
Lizette Woodworth Reese

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I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.
Lawrence Durrell

37.
Trouble Springs From Idleness.
Benjamin Franklin

38.
Idleness induces caprice.
James Russell Lowell

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In work there is no shame; shame is in the idleness.
Hesiod

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Idleness or boredom has no place in the life of a Christian.
Pope Paul VI

41.
A Dandy does nothing.
Charles Baudelaire

42.
I am an idle devil. But at least I work at it.
Helen Cresswell

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Idleness ruins the constitution
Ovid