Indolence Quote by Voltaire Download Open image ““Indolence is sweet, and its consequence bitter.”” — Voltaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Indolence Knowledge
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 Copy Share Image
“And now, tonight, we're living through the bitter part, or maybe the painful, burning part. But more sweetness will come, sooner or later. Trust… — Laura Resau Copy Share Image
“The bitter must come before the sweet, and that also will make the sweet the sweeter.” — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
“Bitter, too, to be forced to acknowledge in one's heart how little love has to do with kindness.” — Pär Lagerkvist Copy Share Image
“And they are unjust to us often, for when they find life bitter they blame us for it, and when they find it sweet… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“What is love for, if not to intensify our affections—both in life and death? But, O, do not be bitter. It is tragically self-destructive… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“...It is no less impossible for us not to taste as bitter the death of those whose life for us was such a source… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“Wisdom heals, even when bitter. Ignorance harms, even when sweet.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“Sourness and bitterness come from the interfering and unappreciative mind. Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet.” — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
“A truth told with bad intent is bitter, a truth told with good intent eventually turns sweeter.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
In our own time the whole of Greece has been subject to a low birth rate and a general decrease of the population, owing… — Polybius Copy Share Image
There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other,… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For if truth… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action. — John Mason Brown Copy Share Image
“A man must find his occasions in himself, it is true. The natural day is very calm, and will hardly reprove his indolence.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is not error which opposes the progress of truth; it is indolence, obstinacy, the spirit of routine, every thing which favors inaction. — Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune Copy Share Image
“You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Could you understand the meaning of light if there were no darkness to point the contrast? Day and night, life and death, love and… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
I suppose that there is no point wasting time being lazy, though of course indolence in a divine way, actually has its advantages. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
