Horace Quotes About Idleness

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  • Busy idleness urges us on.

    "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 384-85, Epistles, Book I, XI. 28, 1922.
  • Busy idleness urges us on. [Lat., Strenua nos exercet inertia.]

  • They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and carriages: the object of our search is present with us.

    "Epistles", I. 11. 27, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 809-11, 1922.
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