Horace on Patience

“Patience makes lighter / What sorrow may not heal. ("sed levius fit patientia quidquid corrigere est nefas")”

“A true Christian man is distinguished from other men, not so much by his beneficent works, as by his patience.”

“It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.”

“Christ commands you to take up His cross and follow Him, not that He may humble you, or lay some penance upon you, but that you may surrender the low self-will and the feeble pride of your sin, and ascend into the sublime patience of heavenly charity.”