"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."
Source not yet traced to a specific passage, so treat the exact wording as unverified. See disputed and misattributed quotes.
Not a Stoic. Jean-Jacques Rousseau is classed as Contemplative & Other: Voices from outside the Greco-Roman tradition, included here for reflection. These are not Stoic in origin.
More from the Contemplative & Other collection
- "The mind is everything. You become what you think."
- "Small acts that are carried out are better than great ones that are planned."
- "The illiterates of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."
- "Man can only be man through education."
- "Learning without thinking is wasted labor."