Home » Quote » Franz Kafka » „Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.“ „Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.“ — Franz Kafka Related quotes „He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.“ — Winston S. Churchill „The quest for philosophical beginnings is idle, for everywhere in all beginnings we find only the crude, the unformed, the empty and the ugly. What matters in all things is the higher levels.“ — Friedrich Nietzsche „The virtues of society are the vices of the saints.“ — Ralph Waldo Emerson „Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied,And vice sometime by action dignified.“ — William Shakespeare