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
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 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
I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy.
Bern Williams
The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.
John Mason Brown
Indolence is the sleep of the mind.
Luc de Clapier
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Indolence Translations
indolence in Norwegian is treghet, lathet
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