If a soldier or labourer complains of the hardship of his lot set him to do nothing.

Blaise Pascal
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  1. I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural. - Lawrence Durrell

  2. There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want. - Bill Watterson

  3. It’s how I fill the time when nothing’s happening. Thinking too much, flirting with melancholy. - Tim Winton

  4. His idleness was his refuge, and in this he was like many others in [occupied] France in that period; laziness became political. - Iain Pears

  5. Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at others, in devout reading. - Benedict Of Nursia

More Quotes By Blaise Pascal
  1. The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.

  2. I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.", 1657)

  3. I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.

  4. To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

  5. To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.

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