Plato Quotes About Idleness

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  • Prefer diligence before idleness, unless you esteem rust above brightness.

  • The bees can abide no drones amongst them; but as soon as they begin to be idle, they kill them.

    Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”
  • Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty, I answered. One produces luxury and idleness and a passion for novelty, the other meanness and bad workmanship and revolution into the bargain.

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Plato

  • Born: 428 BC
  • Died: 348 BC
  • Occupation: Philosopher