Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui Quotes

Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.

Sometimes pain is for the greater good.

Do not kick against the pricks.

We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.

Beare with evill, and expect good.

Cutting one side of your head for a few months is not a big deal compared with what other people have to deal with in the world. Plus, hair grows back.

Anyway, it's good to be sent back to the underground. There's always a good side to bad things and the good side to this is that at least everyone has to go back down.

So you have to take the good with the bad.

Although sometimes I might sound sometimes idealist or too optimistic but I think my father used to say to me in everything bad there's something good that is going to come out of it and there will always be a tomorrow.

To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.

Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

As much as a given condition can be bad at a moment in time, it could be a lot worse.

There are ills that happen for good.

When great evils happen, I am in the habit of looking out for what good may arise from them …

It is not necessary to have an entire certainty in regard to considerable goods and evils; mere possibility, and much more so probability, is sufficient to induce a reasonable person to deprive himself of some trifling good, and even to suffer some slight evil, with a design of acquiring a far greater good, and avoiding a more troublesome evil.

Nothing is ever as bad as it seems. Nor does it ever last as long as you think.

Some people bear great burdens with grace; others suffer minor inconveniences in misery.

Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.

All's well in the end, if you've only the patience to wait.

This, too, will pass.

He who cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good.

The more you complain the longer God lets you live

The evil which one suffers patiently as inevitable seems insupportable as soon as he conceives the idea of escaping from it.