Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues. - Franz Kafka (Dearest Father: Stories and Other Writings Quotes)

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.[Müßiggang ist aller Laster Anfang, aller Tugenden Krönung.]

Source:Dearest Father: Stories and Other Writings (Schocken Books, ed. 1954), Dearest Father: Stories and Other Writings (Schocken Books, ed. 1954), Chapter 3. The Eight Octavo Notebooks, Page 78
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