Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library, 1997.
-- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, (Feb 28 1553-1592), French essayist, courtier; His Essais (Essays) established a new literary form, and often used quotations from classical writers.