Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.
Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.
The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.
Flee sloth, for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest.
Indolence and timidity often keep us to our duty, while our virtue carries off all the credit of doing so.
Ignorance, the product of darkness, stupefies the senses in all embodied beings, binding them by the chains of folly, indolence and lethargy.
I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.
There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.
If you ask me which is the real hereditary sin of human nature, do you imagine I shall answer pride, or luxury, or ambition, or egotism No I shall say indolence. Who conquers indolence will conquer all the rest. Indeed all good principles must stagnate without mental activity.
Indolence is the sleep of the mind.
The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.
It's usually the stupid people that develop long illnesses. You need more than indolence and selfishness, you need endurance to make a good patient.
I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy.
Indolence and stupidity are first cousins.
We each have some dominant defect, by which the enemy can grasp us. In some it is vanity, in others indolence, inmost egotism. Let a cunning and evil spirit possess himself of this, and you are lost.
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness unless he has the strength of character to be wicked. All other goodness is generally nothing but indolence or impotence of will.
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