Question — Bontempi, Palladium Theologicum V · from Schola Thomistica
Question VI: On the vices opposed to patience
To Patience by defect is opposed Impatience, whereby one struggles in vain against adversities, or grieves immoderately over them. But the magnitude of the sin of impatience is to be estimated from its effects, which arise from it, from which the very sin of impatience does not seem to be distinguished. The holy Doctor calls this vice Ira (Wrath).
Patientiae per defectum opponitur Impatientia, qua quis frustra adversis reluctatur, vel immoderate de eisdem tristatur. Magnitudo vero peccati impatientiae aestimanda est ex effectibus, qui ex ea oriuntur, a quibus ipsum impatientiae peccatum non videtur distingui. Vocat autem S. Doctor hoc vitium Iram.
Yet no vice opposed to patience by defect is commonly assigned, because the more lightly adversities are borne, the more it is held worthy of praise.
Vitium tamen per defectum oppositum patientiae, communiter nullum assignatur, quia quo leuius adversa feruntur, eo maioris id laudis habetur.