“Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.”

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.

Source: Made in Japan (1986), p. 186.

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

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