Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 876 |
| AUTHOR: | John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) |
| QUOTATION: | La molesse est douce, et sa suite est cruelle. (Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.) |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Attributed to |
| SUBJECTS: | Idleness |