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• Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is… — Abu Bakr
• Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree. — Ambrose Bierce
• I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may… — Lord Chesterfield
• The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve… — Benjamin Haydon
• Indolence is stagnation; employment is life. — Seneca the Younger
• I like the word "indolence." It makes my laziness seem classy. — Bernard Williams
• Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. — Mahatma Gandhi
• None deserve praise for being good who have not the spirit to be bad: goodness, for the most part, is nothing but… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
• In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires. — James Hutton
• It is not error which opposes the progress of truth; it is indolence, obstinacy, the spirit of routine, every thing which favors… — Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune
• I suppose there were moonless nights and dark ones with but a silver shaving and pale stars in the sky, but I… — Willa Cather
• And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For… — David Hume

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