
“Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.”
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
“Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.”
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“FIDELITY, n. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Reason perhaps teaches certain bourgeois virtues, but it does not make either heroes or saints.”
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), XI : The Practical Problem
As quoted in Schrödinger: Life and Thought (1989) by Walter Moore
Celui qui étudie un texte ou des microbes ou les étoiles doit se défaire de sa subjectivité... c'est là un idéal qu'il faut essayer de rejoindre par une certaine pratique. Disons que l'objectivité est une vertu, d'ailleurs très diffice à pratiquer.
La Philosophie comme manière de vivre (2001)
Of Adversity
Essays (1625)
Context: The virtue of prosperity, is temperance; the virtue of adversity, is fortitude; which in morals is the more heroical virtue. Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New; which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favor. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job, than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
“The virtue of Paganism was strength: the virtue of Christianity is obedience.”
Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Guesses at Truth (London: Macmillan, ([1827-48] 1867) p. 1.
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