Results for: busy idleness urges us on
English Latin
be busy and you will be safe (Ovid)res age, tute eris
be sure to keep busy, so that the devil may always find you occupied (St. Jerome)facito aliquid operis, ut semper te diabolus inveniat occupatum
busy idleness urges us on (Horace)strenua nos exercet inertia
busy idleness urges us on; we seek to live aright by sailing and chariot-driving; what you seek for is here (Horace)strenua nos exercet inertia; navibus atque quadrigis petimus bene vivere; quod petis hic est
energetic idleness (Horace)strenua inertia
happy the man who, remote from busy life, is content, like the earlier race of mortals, to plough his paternal lands with his own oxen, freed from all borrowing and lending (Horace)beatus ille qui procul negotiis, ut prisca gens mortalium, paterna rura bobus exercet suis, solutus omni fœnore
idleness awaits its destiny (i.e., hopes for good fortune)otium sortem exspectat
idleness ought to be rejecteddesidiam abjiciendam
If any man wish to escape idleness, let him fall in love. --- Ovid [Publius Ovidius Naso]Qui nolet fieri desidiosus, amet
persevering labor overcomes all difficulties, and want that urges us on in the pressure of things (Virgil)labor omnia vincit improbus, et duris urgens in rebus egestas
rusty mind, blighted genius (i.e., idleness is the blight of genius)ærugo animi, rubigo ingenii
severe /hesitating /busydistrictus (f. distringo)
strict, severe, hesitating, busydistrictus (fr. distringo)
the sad detest the cheerful, and the cheerful the sad; the swift dislike the sedate, and the careless dislike the busy and industrious (Horace)oderunt hilarem tristes, tristemque jocosi, sedatum celeres, agilem gnavumque remissi
they are busy about nothing (Seneca)operose nihil agunt
 

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