„Men must endureTheir going hence, even as their coming hither.Ripeness is all.“

— William Shakespeare

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„There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair.“
— Jr.
„Men go where they will, they do as they must; it is not a woman's part to bid them to stay, nor yet to reproach them for being what they are-or for not coming back.“
— Diana Gabaldon
„I think no virtue goes with size;The reason of all cowardiceIs, that men are overgrown,And, to be valiant, must come downTo the titmouse dimension.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
„It's an odd feeling-farewell-there is some envy in it. Men go off to be tested for courage and if we're tested at all, it's for patience, for doing without, for how well we can endure loneliness.“
— Karen Blixen
„Men may be stronger, but it is women who endure.“
— Cassandra Clare