Indolence
Freedom from that which pains, or harasses, as toil, care, grief, etc.
The quality or condition of being indolent; inaction, or want of exertion of body or mind, proceeding from love of ease or aversion to toil; habitual idleness; indisposition to labor; laziness; sloth; inactivity.
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Indolence Quotations
I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.
Lord Chesterfield
Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest.
Abu Bakr
I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy.
Bern Williams
Indolence is the sleep of the mind.
Luc de Clapier
The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.
John Mason Brown
Indolence Translations
indolence in Norwegian is treghet, lathet
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