“FIDELITY, n. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
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“Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.”
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
Source: The Courage to Create (1975), Ch. 1 : The Courage to Create, p. 13
Context: Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
“Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.”
As quoted in The Golden Treasury of Thought : A Gathering of Quotations from the Best Ancient and Modern Authors (1873) by Theodore Taylor, p. 227
“Those who struggle for virtue in community life will have greater merit”
than hermits
Vatican biography of Nimatullah Kassab Al-Hardini, Vatican News Service http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/saints/ns_lit_doc_20040516_al-hardini_en.html (May 2004)
Change the World Without Taking Power (2002)
“Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.”
Virtute enim ipsa non tam multi praediti esse quam videri volunt.
Section 98
See also Esse quam videri
Source: Laelius De Amicitia – Laelius On Friendship (44 BC)
"The Power of Money in Bourgeois Society"
Source: Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, p. 105, The Marx-Engels Reader
The Divinisation of Our Activities, p. 66
The Divine Milieu (1960)
Praise at the end of the introduction. In Systema Naturae (1758).
Original in Latin: "Terribilia sunt opera Tua, o Domine! In multitude virtutis Tuae, Te metientur contemptores Tui."
Systema Naturae