"Die wiedergefundenen Söhne" [The Recovered Sons] (1801) as translated in The Monthly Religious Magazine Vol. 10 (1853) p. 445. <!-- * Tapfer ist der Löwensieger,<br/>Tapfer ist der Weltbezwinger,<br/>Tapfrer, wer sich selbst bezwang.— cited from Bernhard Suphan (ed.) Herders sämmtliche Werke (Berlin: Weidmann, 1877-1913) vol. 28, p. 237. -->
Kontext: Calmly take what ill betideth;
Patience wins the crown at length:
Rich repayment him abideth
Who endures in quiet strength.
Brave the tamer of the lion;
Brave whom conquered kingdoms praise;
Bravest he who rules his passions,
Who his own impatience sways.
„To what length will you abuse our patience, Catiline?“
Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra?
— Marcus Tullius Cicero Roman philosopher and statesman -106 - -43 př. n. l.
Variant translation: "How long, Catiline, will you go on abusing our patience?" (SPQR - A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard (New York: Liveright), 2016, p. 51.)
Speech I
In Catilinam I – Against Catiline (63 B.C)
„Endurance is the crowning quality,
And patience all the passion of great hearts.“
— James Russell Lowell American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat 1819 - 1891
Columbus (1844)
„Victory to the spider. Patience wins the day. And today my patience ends. (Apollymi)“
— Sherrilyn Kenyon Novelist 1965
Zdroj: The Dream Hunter
— Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset English politician and poet 1536 - 1608
Gorboduc (1561), Act 5, sc. 2, last lines; the play was written in collaboration with Thomas Norton, though Acts 4 and 5 were apparently Sackville's work alone.
„Many a crown shines spotless now
That yet was deeply sullied in the winning.“
— Friedrich Schiller, Wallenstein
Act II, sc. ii
Wallenstein (1798), Part II - Wallensteins Tod (The Death of Wallenstein)
„The same is true of the passive qualities, patience under suffering, even pleasure in ill usage.“
— Thomas Mann German novelist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate 1875 - 1955
Zdroj: The Beloved Returns (1939), Ch. 7
Kontext: Cruelty is one of the chief ingredients of love, and divided about equally between the sexes: cruelty of lust, ingratitude, callousness, maltreatment, domination. The same is true of the passive qualities, patience under suffering, even pleasure in ill usage.
„Such patience have the heroes who begin,
Sailing the first toward lands which others win.“
— George Eliot English novelist, journalist and translator 1819 - 1880
The Legend of Jubal (1869)
Kontext: Such patience have the heroes who begin,
Sailing the first toward lands which others win.
Jubal must dare as great beginners dare,
Strike form's first way in matter rude and bare,
And, yearning vaguely toward the plenteous choir
Of the world's harvest, make one poor small lyre.
„Patience is of two kinds: patience over what pains you, and patience against what you covet.“
— Ali, kniha Nahj al-Balagha
Nahj al-Balagha
— William Jones Anglo-Welsh philologist and scholar of ancient India 1746 - 1794
Ode in Imitation of Alcæus, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Neither walls, theatres, porches, nor senseless equipage, make states, but men who are able to rely upon themselves", Aristides, Orations (Jebb's edition), vol. i. (trans. by A. W. Austin); By Themistocles alone, or with very few others, does this saying appear to be approved, which, though Alcæus formerly had produced, many afterwards claimed: "Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans, make a state; but where men are who know how to take care of themselves, these are cities and walls."—Ibid. vol. ii.
— Fredric Brown, kniha The Mind Thing
Zdroj: The Mind Thing (1961), Chapter 18 (p. 555)
— Robert G. Ingersoll Union United States Army officer 1833 - 1899
"The Brooklyn Divines." Brooklyn Union (Brooklyn, NY), 1883.
— Larry Bird basketball player and coach 1956
Marty McNeal (June 11, 2000) "Bryant: A Game-Day Decision - Magic Had to Convince Him to Stay Out After Friday's Injury", The Sacramento Bee, p. C13.
„Patience has its limits. Take it too far and it's cowardice.“
— George Jackson (activist) activist, Marxist, author, member of the Black Panther Party, and co-founder of the Black Guerrilla Family 1941 - 1971
Letter http://books.google.com/books?id=miuCcUGkuYMC&q=%22Patience+has+its+limits+Take+it+too+far+and+it's+cowardice%22&pg=PA61#v=onepage to his parents from San Quentin Prison, 2 May 1965, in Soledad Brother (1970), p. 61
„Patience is not very different from courage. It just takes longer.“
— James Richardson American poet 1950
#54
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
— José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero Former Prime Minister of Spain 1960
Presidential press release after ETA's 2006 ceasefire declaration, September 2006.
Sources: Efe Agency, PSOE PSOE http://www.psoe.es/ambito/saladeprensa/news/index.do?id=89659&action=View and the general press.
As President, 2006
„To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster:
Either condemn or crown your hatred.“
— Pierre Corneille, Rodogune
Qui se venge à demi court lui-même à sa peine:
Il faut ou condamner ou couronner sa haine.
Cléopâtre, act V, scene i.
Rodogune (1644)
