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idleness

Idleness is a disease that must be combated

is a pleasure, to busy oneself with trifles, to begin a hundred things and not finish one of them, to change one's plan every moment: N short, to fritter away the whole day inconsequentially and incoherently, and to follow nothing but the whim of the moment.

I love idleness. I love to busy myself about trifles, to begin a hundred things and not finish one of them, to come and go as my fancy bids me, to change my plan every moment, to follow a fly in all its circlings, to try and uproot a rock to see what is underneath, eagerly to begin a ten-years' task to give it up after ten minutes: in short, to fritter away the whole day inconsequentially and incoherently, and to follow nothing but the whim of the moment. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

is by no means a root of evil... on the contrary, it is truly a divine life, if one is not bored.

Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended. . . Idleness as such is by no means a root of evil... on the contrary, it is truly a divine life, if one is not bored. . .

is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. Victor Hugo

is heart, there will immediately arise weariness, gloom, sadness, fretfulness, vexation, despair.

heart weariness, gloom, sadness, fretfulness, vexation, despair.

is in the closest proximity to all virtue. The idle man is always a better man than the active : But when I speak of idleness, you do not think I am alluding to you, do you, you sluggards.

In favour of the idle. One sign that the valuation of the contemplative life has declined is that scholars now compete with men of action in a kind of precipitate pleasure, so that they seem to value this kind of pleasure more highly than that to which they are really entitled and which is in fact much more pleasurable. Scholars are ashamed of otium.* But there is something noble about leisure and idleness. If idleness really is the beginning of all vice, then it is at any rate in the closest proximity to all virtue... the idle man is always a better man than the active. But when I speak of leisure and idleness, you do not think I am alluding to you, do you, you sluggards'

is like the nightmare in that the moment you begin to stir yourself you shake it off.

Idleness is like the nightmare... the moment you begin to stir yourself you shake it off

is master of all the passions, even the violent passions of ambition and love... she influences all our designs and actions, and insensibly consumes and destroys both passions and virtues.

It is a mistake to imagine, that the violent passions only, such as ambition and love, can triumph over the rest. Idleness, languid as it is, often masters them all... she influences all our designs and actions, and insensibly consumes and destroys both passions and virtues. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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