Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Quote by Jean Jacques Rousseau

Topics: Bitterness Quotes, Patience Quotes

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to...

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to...

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as...

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as...

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

Cities are the abyss of the human species

Cities are the abyss of the human species

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no...

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no...

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and...

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and...

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years...

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years...

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

Every state funeral that shines is on its decline

Every state funeral that shines is on its decline

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned...

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned...

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins...

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins...

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.