And even if one have all the virtues, there is still one thing needful: to send the virtues themselves to sleep at the right time.
First Part · II. The Academic Chairs of Virtue
Sending the virtues themselves to sleep
Read in the book →The wise man says that even the virtues must be put to sleep so that they do not quarrel.
- Virtues from passionsVirtue is here tamed and put to bed, the opposite of passions growing into living virtues.