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"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."
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"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."
"Be patient in life, knowing that there is a real possibility that the desired outcome could happen without your direct involvement."
"I won't quarrel with my bread and butter."
"She would only let you know her, little by little ~ never giving too much away but willing to share the small parts that make up her life, she falls slowly like that ~ love isn't a maybe thing in her eyes & her heart is the prize, she knows her worth and she will withstand the wait."
"Patience triumphs over everything."
"He'd seen when she began to panic, but he hadn't offered comfort like other Doms or changed his plans. He'd just waited her out. She could hate him a little for that."
Explore more quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once."
"They say that Caliph Omar, when consulted about what had to be done with the library of Alexandria, answered as follows: 'If the books of this library contain matters opposed to the Koran, they are bad and must be burned. If they contain only the doctrine of the Koran, burn them anyway, for they are superfluous.' Our learned men have cited this reasoning as the height of absurdity. However, suppose Gregory the Great was there instead of Omar and the Gospel instead of the Koran. The library would still have been burned, and that might well have been the finest moment in the life of this illustrious pontiff."
"We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man."
"The sword wears out its sheath, as it is sometimes said. That is my story. My passions have made me live, and my passions have killed me. What passions, it may be asked. Trifles, the most childish things in the world. Yet they affected me as much as if the possessions of Helen, or the throne of the Universe, had been at stake."
"To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties."
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