Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.
Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.
Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil.
Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
Idle time is the devil's play.
There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.
Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.
Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.