Etymologically, patient means sufferer. It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades. That illness can be not an epic of suffering but the occasion of some kind of self-transcendence is affirmed by sentimental literature and, more convincingly, by case histories offered by doctor-writers. Some illnesses seem more apt than others for this kind of meditation.

Etymologically, 'patient' means sufferer.

Satis eloquentiae, sapientiae parum.

Cum ergo spiritus Dei descendit, indiuidua patientia comitatur eum.

Sapientia autem est, ut a veteribus philosophis definitum est, rerum divinarum et humanarum causarumque, quibus eae res continentur, scientia, cuius studium qui vituperat haud sane intellego quidnam sit quod laudandum putet.

quid est sapienta? semper idem velle atque idem nolle.

Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra?

Dictum sapienti sat est.

Quo usque tandem abutere, Catalina, patientia nostra?

Quin eo deventum est ut iam (proh dolor!) non existimentur sapientes nisi qui mercennarium faciunt studium sapientiae.

What are the hallmarks of a patient? Let's see - passive, helpless, things are done sequentially, and well, that is not how people recover. That is not how people learn to live the lives they want or dream of.

With patient inattention hear him prate.

Taciturnitas stulto homini pro sapientia est.

statuere enim qui sit sapiens vel maxime videtur esse sapientis