Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.
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.
The lot of man is ceaseless labour, or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder.
Labor keeps us free three of the great evils; tiresomeness, vice, and want.
Idleness, then, is so far from being the root of evil that it is rather the true good.[Lediggang er da saa langt fra at være Roden til det Onde, at den snarere er det sande Gode.]
Idleness is the parent of all psychology.
Constant idleness should be included in the tortures of hell, but it is, on the contrary, considered to be one of the joys of paradise.[Надобно бы было включить вечную праздность в муки ада, а ее-то, напротив, поместили среди радостей рая.]
