“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…”
Ambrose of Milan, 4th c. — On the Duties of the Clergy 1.21.96
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32He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
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30He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.
31The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
— Proverbs 16:32 —
33The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD.