“620. An idle Person is the Devil's Playfellow.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Variant: 3054. Idle Fellows are the Devil's Playfellows.
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British physician, preacher, and intellectual 1654–1734Related quotes
“I decided that the devil finds work for idle hands and thanked him for his suggestion.”
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"The Jelly-Bean"
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“Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise.”
Source: The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
“A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.”
An Apology for Idlers.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
The Ageless Wisdom, An Introduction to Humanity's Spiritual Legacy (1996)
“A witch is a person who hath conference with the Devil to consult with him or to do some act.”
Reported in Margaret Alice Murray, The Witch-Cult in Western Europe: A Study in Anthropology (2007) p. 18.
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Original: (it) Una persona completa, all'occorrenza, sa mostrare la sua essenza di innocente angelo o pericoloso diavolo.
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