“There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.”
Edmund Burke (1729–1797) Anglo-Irish statesman
Observations on a Late Publication on the Present State of the Nation (1769), volume i, p. 273
1760s
“My son, forbearance is a great virtue; there's no other like it.”
[In the Company of the Holy Mother, 124-125]
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Vyasa’s curse to the first widowed wife of his half brother on the son to be born to them. His mother [Satyavati] had asked him to produce heirs to the throne with the two widows of his half-brother. The first princess closed her eyes as Vyasa was in fearful ascetic condition when he slept with her. In due time Dhritarshtra was born blind. Quoted in p. 58.
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On the character Chueh-hsin (Juexin), in Family (1931)
Context: He had never disagreed with anyone in his life, no matter how unfairly they may have treated him. He preferred to swallow his tears, suppress his anger and bitterness; he would bear anything rather than oppose a person directly. Nor did it ever occur to him to wonder whether this forbearance might not be harmful to others.
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1930s, Quarantine Speech (1937)
“All my foundation in virtue was no other than a total ignorance of vice.”
John Cleland book Fanny Hill
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