Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Idleness

Quotes about: Idleness

• Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Faults, Excuse, Idleness

• We do not lack strength so much as the will to use it; and very often our imagining that things are impossible is nothing but an excuse of our own contriving, to reconcile ourselves to our own idleness.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Strength, Use, Impossible

• It is a mighty error to suppose that none but violent and strong passions, such as love and ambition, are able to vanquish the rest. Even idleness, as feeble and languishing as it is, sometimes reigns over them; it usurps the throne and sits paramount over all the designs and actions of our lives, and imperceptibly wastes and destroys all our passions and all our virtues.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Strong, Passion, Ambition

• Of all our faults, the one we avow most easily is idleness; we persuade ourselves that it is allied to all the peaceable virtues,and as for the others, that it does not destroy them utterly, but only suspends the exercise of their functions.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Exercise, Laziness, Faults

• Idleness and constancy fix the mind to what it finds easy and agreeable. This habit always confines and cramps up our knowledge; and no one has ever taken the trouble to stretch and carry his understanding as far as it could go.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Taken, Knowledge, Understanding

• It is a mistake to imagine, that the violent passions only, such as ambition and love, can triumph over the rest. Idleness, languid as it is, often masters them all; she influences all our designs and actions, and insensibly consumes and destroys both passions and virtues.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Mistake, Passion, Ambition

• Idleness and fear keeps us in the path of duty, but our virtue often gets the praise.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Path, Praise, Virtue

• Idleness is more an infirmity of the mind than of the body.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Mind, Body, Infirmity

• We are lazier in our minds than in our bodies.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Mind, Body, Idleness

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