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...soon findeth the remedy for [any] difficulty, and bringeth the work he hath undertaken to a conclusion with ease and success. 5. The patient man is ever beloved of his companions, and oft-times putteth them to shame. For it may happen that they grieve him unjustly in some matter; yet he, by not scowling and by enduring with meekness, so obligeth them that they afterwards repent of what they have done, and ask forgiveness, and become bound unto him with greater love. But if he himself should by mistake grieve his companion, he straightway asketh pardon, and suffereth not the bond of friendship to be loosed. 6. Patience rendereth a man educated, learned, and skilled in a craft; whereby he is able to earn his sufficient livelihood, and suffereth no want throughout all his life. For in the time of his childhood, he endureth without murmuring the reprimand and counsel of his teacher or master, and rendereth him service from the heart; whereby, in the time of his maturity, he shall have a good education and become skilled in a craft, whereby his...