Holy Scripture
Proverbs 16:32
A church father on this verse
“If you are angry, be angry with yourselves, because you are roused, and you will not sin. For he who is angry with himself, because he has been so easily roused, ceases to be angry with another. But he who wishes to prove his anger is righteous only gets the more inflamed and quickly falls into sin. "Better is he," as…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
32A man slow to anger is better than a strong man; And he that governs his temper better than he that takes a city.
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30And the man that fixes his eyes devises perverse things, And marks out with his lips all evils: He is a furnace of wickedness.
31Old age is a crown of honor, But it is found in the ways of righteousness.
— Proverbs 16:32 —
33All evils come upon the ungodly into their bosoms; But all righteous things come of the Lord.