Patience

—  Lao-Tzu, 6th cent. BC, Chinese philosopher

—  Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher

—  Alfred Capus, 1858-1922, French writer

—  Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer

—  Laurence J Peter, 1919-1990, Canadian writer & educator

—  Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865, American President

—  Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher

—  Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor

—  Antonio Porchia, 1885-1968, Italian-Argentinian poet

—  Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, American politician & writer

—  Ambrose Bierce, 1842–1914, American writer

—  Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881, British Prime Minister

—  Charles Caleb Colton, 1780-1832, English cleric & writer

—  Vauvenargues, 1715-1747, French author of maxims

—  Margaret Thatcher, 1925-2013, British Prime Minister

—  William Maxwell, 1908-2000, American writer

—  Alexandre Dumas, 1802-1870, French writer

—  Antoin de Saint-Exupéry, 1900-1940, French writer

—  Francis Bacon, 1561-1626, English philosopher

—  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1830-1916, German author of maxims

—  Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881, English writer

—  Rainer Maria Rilke, 1875-1926, Czech-German poet

—  Graham Greene, 1904-1991, British writer

—  William Faulkner, 1897-1962, American writer, Nobel 1949

—  D. H. Lawrence, 1885-1930, British writer

—  Hermann Hesse, 1877-1962, German writer, Nobel 1946

—  Hermann Hesse, 1877-1962, German writer, Nobel 1946

—  Joseph De Maistre, 1753-1821, Savoyard diplomat & philosopher

—  Henry Miller, 1891-1980, American writer

—  Napoleon Hill, 1883-1970, American self-help writer

—  Søren Kierkegaard, 1813-1855, Danish philosopher

—  George Herbert, 1593-1633, Welsh poet

—  Tertullian, 155-240 AD, Berber-Roman Christian author

—  Susan Sontag, 1933-2004, American writer, critic, activist

—  Catullus, 84-54 BC, Roman poet

—  Sinclair Lewis, 1885-1951, American writer, Nobel 1930

—  Leo Tolstoy, 1828–1910, Russian writer

Patientia comes est sapientiae.

—  Saint Augustine, 354-430, Christian theologian & philosopher

Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra?

—  Cicero, 106-43 BC, Roman orator & statesman

     (in the first of his four Catiline Orations)

Potius sero quam numquam.

—  Titus Livius, 59 BC-17 AD, Roman historian

—  Helen Keller, 1880-1968, American writer

—  Franklin P. Jones, 1908-1980, American columnist

Ανέχου και απέχου.

—  Epictetus, 50-120 AD, Ancient Greek Stoic philosopher

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—  Italian proverb