MARCUS: 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 2, ch. 23 (3.23) / sec. 57 (3.57) (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)]
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The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.
John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) English economist
The Economic Consequences of the Peace, ch. 1 (1919)
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The culture of any organization is shaped by the worst behavior the leader is willing to tolerate.
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Steve Gruenert and Todd Whitaker, School Culture Rewired, ch. 3 (2015)
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Often misattributed as "Gruenter and Whitaker".
CLARENCE: A little fire is quickly trodden out,
Which, being suffered, rivers cannot quench.William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Henry VI, Part 3, Act 4, sc. 8, l. 7ff (4.8.7-8) (1590)
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