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I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide.

— Lord Chesterfield

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the…

— William Hazlitt

It should seem that indolence itself would incline a person to be honest, as it requires infinitely greater pains and contrivance to be a…

— William Shenstone

There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death . . . Revenge…

— Francis Bacon

“This compassion, or sympathy with the pains of others, ought also to extend to the brute creation, as far as our necessities will admit;…

— Erasmus Darwin

One of the great tragedies we witness almost daily is the tragedy of men of high aim and low achievement. Their motives are noble.…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can cause almost as much suffering as the most acute malevolence.

— Bruce Catton

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

— Jonathan Swift

“I believe that no man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping. For such is our natural horror of death, that small…

— David Hume

One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to efface.

— Victor Hugo

Indolence is the devil's cushion.

— Samuel Johnson

A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to him.

— Publilius Syrus