Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

—Cato the Elder

About Cato the Elder

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Marcus Porcius Cato (; 234–149 BC), also known as Cato the Censor (Latin: Censorius), the Elder and the Wise, was a Roman soldier, senator, and historian known for his conservatism and opposition to Hellenization. He was the first to write history in Latin with his Origines, a now fragmentary work...

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I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

—Cato the Elder

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

—Cato the Elder

Grasp the subject, the words will follow.

—Cato the Elder

We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.

—Cato the Elder

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

—Cato the Elder

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Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.

The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

—William Jennings Bryan

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Patience is the companion of wisdom.

—Saint Augustine

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Patience is the art of hoping.

—Luc de Clapiers

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

—Laurence J. Peter

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