Boredom Quote by Voltaire Download Open image “Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need” — Voltaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Boredom Cool motivational Encouragement Evil Greatness Inspirational Motivation Needs Spares Three Vices Work
“Work saves a man from three great evils: boredom, vice, and need.” — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
Work helps to preserve us from three great evils -weariness, vice, and want. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world. Almost any evil you'd care to name comes from working or from… — Bob Black Copy Share Image
Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Let us work without desire for name or fame or rule over others. Let us be free from the triple bonds of lust, greed… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves. — Benjamin Whichcote 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
I am fairly tired--bored beyond endurance--by the world we live in, and its ideals, and am ready to say so, not violently, but kindly,… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Life is what you make it¦If one refuses to use ones imagination..it will be boring. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day. — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
When people look in the mirror, sometimes they see are their shells in the mirror, nothing else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone wants to do the same thing over and over again. — Eric Bachmann Copy Share Image
“A car is one of the most interesting inventions, but driving is one of the most boring activities.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
We shop out of boredom, for release, for excitement, for a sense of achievement, for a sense of control over our unruly existences. And… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
