The quote "Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction." is famous quote attributed to Anne Frank (1929–1945), victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary.
Variant translation: Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.
6 July 1944
The Diary of a Young Girl (1942 - 1944)
Variant: Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.
Luiheid mag aantrekkelijk schijnen, werken geeft bevrediging.
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl
2014, "Read full interview of Narendra Modi to Rajat Sharma", 2014
Context: I had started the campaign from 15th September. So now it’s 6–7 months since I started the campaign. I am a laborer and my childhood was very tough and physically I am used to all this. I also do my [y]oga and [p]ranayam. But the important point is that I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don’t work. When you clean your house, you don’t get tired, it gives you satisfaction.
“I believe people work for satisfaction.”
Source: Made in Japan (1986), p. 186.
“It is satisfaction to a man to do the proper works of a man.”
VIII, 26
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VIII
Original: La donna intelligente, sarà sempre attratta da dolcezza, simpatia, eleganza, cultura e rispetto. Non dall'apparenza.
Source: prevale.net
Original: La donna intelligente, sarà sempre attratta da dolcezza, simpatia, eleganza, cultura e rispetto. Non dall'apparenza.
Source: prevale.net
“Don't make love to your problems-- they'll never give you back the satisfaction you give them.”
Source: Forbidden Falls
Dune Genesis (1980)
Context: Don't give over all of your critical faculties to people in power, no matter how admirable those people may appear to be. Beneath the hero's facade you will find a human being who makes human mistakes. Enormous problems arise when human mistakes are made on the grand scale available to a superhero. And sometimes you run into another problem.
It is demonstrable that power structures tend to attract people who want power for the sake of power and that a significant proportion of such people are imbalanced — in a word, insane. … Heroes are painful, superheroes are a catastrophe. The mistakes of superheroes involve too many of us in disaster.
It is the systems themselves that I see as dangerous.
‘Hypothesis and Imagination’ in The Art of the Soluble, 1967.
1960s
