The Bread Of Idleness

Στεγναὶ διατριβαὶ οἴκων αὐτῆς σῖτα δὲ ὀκνηρὰ οὐκ ἔφαγεν.  Σῖτα ὀκνηρὰ, τὰ ὀκνοποιοῦντα τυχεῖν τῆς βασιλείας τοὺς ἀπλουστέρους καὶ ἀφελεστέρους, ἡ εὐγνώμων καὶ θεοφιλὴς ψυχὴ οὐκ ἐσθίει, οὔτε μὴν τούτων γεύεται, εἰ τάχα τύχοι αὐτῶν ἐπιθυμῆσαι· τὰς κακίας γάρ φησι σῖτα ὀκνηρά. Ὠριγένης, Ἐκλογαὶ Εἰς Παροιμίας Source: Migne PG 17.252b

She watches the ways of her house and she has not eaten the bread of idleness. 1 Idle bread is the kingdom of indolence of the more foolish and inept, which the faithful and pious soul does not eat; it does not even taste it, unless perhaps we may say that 'a taste' is when the desire for it comes upon us, for evils he speaks as idle bread. Origen, On Proverbs, Fragment 1 Prov 31.27