Their ruinous vice, if we are to trust the records of the time, was what the old monks called accidia -- [Greek text] -- and ranked it as one of the seven deadly sins: a general careless, sleepy, comfortable habit of mind, which lets all go its way for good or evil -- a habit of mind too often accompanied, as in the case of the Angle-Danes, with self-indulgence, often coarse enough. ❋ Charles Kingsley (1847)
The former leaves to the latter to discover for itself the three carnal sins, avarice, gluttony and libidinousness; having already declared the nature of the spiritual sins, pride, envy, anger, and indifference, or lukewarmness in piety, which the Italians call accidia, from the Greek word. ❋ 1265-1321 Dante Alighieri (1293)
Certain physical disabilities had now been added to the malaise which had befallen him years before, a malaise of which I had no precise knowledge, but interpreted as something like accidia, the monk's torpor or disease of the Middle Ages – which was how his great security, his excessive worldly blessings, had taken him. ❋ Unknown (2001)
The accidia had turned him into a recluse, accessible only to his intimate friends. ❋ Unknown (2001)
The great perils in the life of man, which endangered him in this world and the next, were the superficial elation of superbia, when by whatever acci - dent Fortune favored him, and the ruinous desperation of accidia and dolor, when Fortune frowned. ❋ CHARLES TRINKAUS (1968)
The first four books of the "Institutes" treat of the rules governing the monastic life, illustrated by examples from the author's personal observation in Egypt and Palestine; the eight remaining books are devoted to the eight principal obstacles to perfection encountered by monks: gluttony, impurity, covetousness, anger, dejection, accidia ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
I knew the church condemned _accidia_, but the whole idea seemed to me quite fantastic, just the sort of sin, I fancied, a priest who knew nothing about real life would invent. ❋ Oscar Wilde (1877)
_accidia_ [29] of his kind is not only a fault in the individual, but a positive ill omen and nuisance [30] to others. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)
It is the _accidia_ of the cloister; a trace of sourness, of ferment engendered by the enforced stagnation of youthful energies, a vague, obscure melancholy. " ❋ Honor�� De Balzac (1824)
Quid ego dicam de correctione fraterna f Quid de peccatis diicac opposi*» tis Charitati) 6t odio Dei, atque accidia? ❋ Joseph Chantre Herrera, Giovanni Vincenzo Bolgeni (1792)
