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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body. - Cato (Marcus Porcius Cato "The Elder") (a/k/a Cato the Censor) Sloth * * * never arrived at the attainment of a good wish. - Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) Sloth is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People that have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company. - Jeremy Collier A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness. - George Stillman Hillard That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided. [Lat., Vitanda est improba--desidia.] - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Satires (II, 3, 14) So fixed are our spirits in slothfulness and cold indifference that we seldom overcome so much as one evil habit. - Thomas a Kempis The very soul of the slothful does effectually but lie drowsing in his body, and the whole man is totally given up to his senses. - Sir Roger L'Estrange Prosperity engenders sloth. - Titus Livy Excess is not the only thing which breaks men in their health, and in the comfortable enjoyment of themselves; but many are brought into a very ill and languishing habit of body by mere sloth; and sloth is in itself both a great sin, and the cause of many more. - Bishop Robert South Many are idly busy. Domitian was busy, but then it was catching flies. - Jeremy Taylor Slovenliness is a lazy and beastly negligence of a man's own person, whereby he becomes so sordid as to be offensive to those about him. - Theophrastus As sloth seldom bringeth actions to good birth; so hasty rashness always makes them abortive ere well formed. - Arthur Warwick Sloth is the torpidity of the mental faculties; the sluggard is a living insensible. - Johann Georg von Zimmermann
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