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Every one ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.
[Lat., Sua quisque exempla debet aequo animo read more
Every one ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.
[Lat., Sua quisque exempla debet aequo animo pati.]
Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
Oh, I have suffered
With those that I saw suffer!
Oh, I have suffered
With those that I saw suffer!
How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's read more
How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh.
Acquaintance without patience is like a candle with no light.
Acquaintance without patience is like a candle with no light.
Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of read more
Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.
The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.
The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes read more
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.
The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.
