There is a great quality: patience. And what is patience? We can divide it as follows: the knowledge of the transience of the present and the knowledge of the time effect. Almost nothing truly valuable, truly capable of bringing us pride, is formed without the vigor given only by time. I mean: time strengthens and improves our qualities, our achievements, and patience is the virtue necessary to let time acts. What about what afflicts and dismay us? Transitional. And what make us proud? Also. Time amplifies, but attenuates. Thus, whoever has any objective, a purpose or a sufficiently relevant goal, or who feels extremely cheerful or disconsolate in a given period, gets it right by developing this wise virtue that is patience.
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