“Patience, then, is the best remedy against affliction.”

— Plautus, Rudens

Rudens, Act II, sc. v, line 71.
Variant translation: Patience is the best remedy for every trouble. (translation by Henry Thomas Riley)
Rudens (The Rope)

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Roman comic playwright of the Old Latin period -254–-184 BC

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