Repose is a good thing, but boredom is its brother

Work keeps at bay three great evils: boredom, vice, and need

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

All kinds are good except the kind that bores you.

Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.