“To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.”
“Paradoxically, to be truly idle, you also have to be efficient.”
“Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.”
“If I could have done anything more, it would have been less”
“I would have done just about anything for him.”
“Idleness is worst, Idleness alone is without hope: work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at almost all things. There is endless hope in work, were it even work at making money.”