Indolence Quotes
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I suppose that there is no point wasting time being lazy, though of course indolence in a divine way, actually has its advantages.
Stephen Fry -
I have not drawn a very rosy picture of the magician. I did not intend to do so. To the novice entering the life and promising himself ease, indolence, and wealth, I should say, Don't!
Alexander Herrmann
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We grow old more through indolence, than through age.
Queen Christina -
Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
Plato -
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
Seneca the Younger -
It takes character to withstand the rigours of indolence.
Tom Stoppard
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It should seem that indolence itself would incline a person to be honest, as it requires infinitely greater pains and contrivance to be a knave.
William Shenstone -
Comfort and indolence are cronies.
Thomas Hood -
Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
Cato the Younger -
Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
Tacitus