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Idleness is the parent of psychology.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Parent Psychology

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

Benjamin Franklin

Trouble Ease Toil Springs Needless

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

Soren Kierkegaard

Good Evil True Being

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

Man Poverty Care Hide

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

Writing Labor Dreadful

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

William Wordsworth

Day Sports Golf Round Strenuous

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Work Man Intelligence Mind

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Life Women Man People

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Dreams Truth Sometimes Top

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It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Dreams Truth Sometimes Top

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

Beginning Crown Virtues Vice

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

Women Place Wish Retirement

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

Herman Melville

Man Brain Grief Hands

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Work Men Sin Some

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

Miguel de Cervantes

Best Good Mother Man

Sadly, many in our world today encourage idleness, especially in the form of mindless, inane entertainment that is on the Internet, on television, and in computer games.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Today World Internet Television

I think the man who eats the bread of idleness is under a certain obligation to speak well of labor.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Man Think Speak Bread

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

Life Happiness Philosophy Useless

Believe me, I do not like idleness but work.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Work Me Believe Like

The invention of money opened a new field to human avarice by giving rise to usury and the practice of lending money at interest while the owner passes a life of idleness.

Pliny the Elder

Life Money Giving Practice

Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Light Time Cigarette Every

A few days of idleness have completely sickened me, and given me what is called the blue-devils so severely, that I feel that the sooner I go to work and drive them off, the better.

John James Audubon

Work Me Drive Feel

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.

Agatha Christie

Mother Think Opinion Trouble

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

Work Which Disgrace

Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.

Shame Source Toil

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