Decree Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A man must learn to endure patiently what he cannot avoid conveniently.

— Michel de Montaigne

Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure.

— Marcus Aurelius

Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Ah vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of fate are, How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are

— William Makepeace Thackeray

One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether…

— Geoffrey Chaucer

Grant me prudently to avoid him that flatters me, and to endure patiently him that contradicts me.

— Thomas a Kempis

The religion of Christ is peace and good-will,--the religion of Christendom is war and ill-will.

— Walter Savage Landor

There is not a more disgusting spectacle under the sun than our subserviency to British criticism. It is disgusting, first, because it is truckling,…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Man is, perhaps, no more prone to war than he used to be and no more inclined to commit other evil deeds. But a…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

It is but seldom that any one overt act produces hostilities between two nations; there exists, more commonly, a previous jealousy and ill will,…

— Washington Irving

It is unfortunate that in most cases when the sins of the father fall on the son it is because unlike God, people refuse…

— Anonymous

Never allow sick attitudes to poison your thinking, nor let ill will make you ill. Avoid making your mind sore by that painful rehurting…

— Norman Vincent Peale