A Quote by Sophocles

Laziness is the mother of all evils.

Sophocles

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Evils Laziness Mother

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Sophocles
Greek - Poet
496 BC - 406 BC

One can be deceived by three types of laziness: of indolence, which is the wish to procrastinate; the laziness of inferiority, which is doubting your capabilities; and the laziness that is attachment to negative actions, or putting great effort into non-virtue.

Dalai Lama

The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Ignorance is the mother of all evils.

Francois Rabelais

O Laziness, mother of the arts and noble virtues, be thou the balm of human anguish.

Paul Lafargue

Frequently what we say is rest is merely laziness. Our body requires respite and so does our mind and spirit. But a person should never rest because of a laziness which arises from the evil nature in his emotion. How often laziness and emotional distaste for work join to employ physical fatigue as a cover-up.

Watchman Nee

Love of money is the mother-city (metropolis) of all evils.

Bion of Borysthenes

The second class of evils comprises such evils as people cause to each other, when, e.g. , some of them use their strength against others. These evils are more numerous than those of the first kind... they likewise originate in ourselves, though the sufferer himself cannot avert them.

Maimonides

Vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous. To be convinced of this we need only represent, on the one hand,the numberless benefits which result from vanity, as industry, the arts, fashions, politeness, and taste; and on the other, the infinite evils which spring from the pride of certain nations, a laziness, poverty, a total neglect of everything.

Baron de Montesquieu

Some people are so foolish that they think they can go through life without the help of the Blessed Mother. Love the Madonna and pray the rosary, for her Rosary is the weapon against the evils of the world today. All graces given by God pass through the Blessed Mother.

Pio of Pietrelcina

All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.

Sophocles

Evils we have had continually calling for reformation, and reformations more grievous than any evils.

Edmund Burke

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.

Andrew Jackson

All acts of living become bad by ten things, and by avoiding the ten things they become good. There are three evils of the body, four evils of the tongue, and three evils of the mind.

Gautama Buddha

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.