All things are tolerable which others have borne and are bearing.

[Sed significat tolerabilia esse, quae et tulerint et ferant ceteri.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher

Tusculan Disputations [Tusculanae Disputationes], Book 3, ch. 23 (3.23) / sec. 57 (45 BC) [tr. Yonge (1853)]
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(Source (Latin)). Alternate translations:

• "Those things are in themselves tolerable, which others have born, and do bear." [tr. Wase (1643)]
• "All things are tolerable which others have borne and can bear." [tr. Main (1824)]
• "What others have endured and endure must be tolerable." [tr. Otis (1839)]
• "Things are tolerable which others have borne and are bearing." [tr. Peabody (1886)]
• "The circumstances at hand are indeed tolerable, since others have tolerated them and continue to do so." [tr. Graver (2002)]