"Slovenliness is a lazy and beastly negligence of a man's own person, whereby he becomes so sordid as to be offensive to those about him."

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Source : Jean de La Bruyère, Nicholas Rowe, Theophrastus (1713). “The characters, or, the manners of the present age”, p.41

Theophrastus

#Men Quotes #Sloth Quotes #Lazy Quotes

“A real man makes his own luck,”
“He who is too well off is always longing for something new.”

Source : Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm (2014). “Grimm's Fairy Tales: Complete and illustrated - 211 Tales”, p.106, Ageless Reads
“Because a God who is ultimately most focused on his own glory will be about the business of restoring us, who are all broken images of him. His glory demands it. So we should be thankful for a self-sufficient God whose self-regard is glorious.”
“To express gratitude is gracious and honorable, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live with gratitude ever in our hearts is to touch heaven.”
“Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power.”
“Once you admit a lie or a slander into your ears, you can never totally rid yourself of its effects.”

Source : Rabbi Daniel Lapin (2009). “Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money”, p.43, John Wiley & Sons
“You spend your whole life trying to get known and then you spend the rest of it hiding in the toilet.”
“Women, wake up; the tocsin of reason sounds throughout the universe; recognize your rights.”

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