"Patience is the sweetest fruit of philosophy."
Source not yet traced to a specific passage, so treat the exact wording as unverified. See disputed and misattributed quotes.
Not a Stoic. Plutarch is classed as Greco-Roman & Adjacent: Classical figures who shaped or argued with Stoicism — Socrates, Aristotle, Heraclitus, Cicero and others. Related, but not Stoic.
More from the Greco-Roman & Adjacent collection
- "Dedicate yourself to being the best at what you do."
- "Courage is the mean between rashness and cowardice."
- "To know oneself is the beginning of all wisdom."
- "Learn to think that death is nothing to us, for all good and all evil consists in sensation; and death is the privation of sensation."
- "The love of wisdom is the beginning of wisdom."