- English translation
Patience can cure anything, but nothing can cure impatience.
- Literal wording
Everything, its remedy is patience, but lack of patience has no remedy.
- Meaning and lesson
The saying presents patience as a universal cure: every hardship has patience as its own remedy. Whatever comes, a person who can endure and wait it out will eventually manage it or gain the upper hand. The emphasis falls on steady endurance as the tool that makes every other difficulty treatable.
The second half turns the logic around. If the trouble is itself a lack of patience, an inability to endure or wait, the one cure is exactly what is missing, so there is no remedy at all. Impatience is therefore cast as the worst affliction, because it destroys the only means of recovering from anything.
- When it is used
Suited to moments when someone is giving up too soon on a hard situation. It can encourage them to hold on, or warn that losing patience will leave them without any way forward. It works as gentle advice or as a sober reminder.
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