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XIX. Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations: 1195.
XIX. Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations: 1195.
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XIX. Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations: 1195.

1195.

p. 298

A SIMILE FOR PATIENCE.

Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the cold increases, that cold cannot hurt you; in the same way increase your patience under great offences, and they cannot hurt your feelings.

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