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Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Augustine of Hippo - De patientia /

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

Jean de La Fontaine - Fables /

Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.

Patience reveals the soul's hidden riches.

Publilius Syrus - Sentences /

Patience reveals the soul's hidden riches.

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It is always the impatience to win that causes someone to lose.

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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.

François Rabelais /

For there was never yet philosopher
That could endure the toothache patiently.

William Shakespeare /

There are only two remedies for the suffering of the soul: hope and patience.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

Have patience with the quarrelsomeness of the stupid. It is not easy to comprehend that one does not comprehend.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach /

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Carl Gustav Jung

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Benjamin Franklin

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Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

Francis Bacon /

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice /

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