A Real Driver

He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot, him I call a real driver; other people are but holding the reins. The Dhammapada

He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty and he that rules his spirit better than he that takes a city. Proverbs 16:32

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes angry. Euripedes

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. Marcus Aurelius

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. Thomas à Kempis.

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Image from Wikimedia: winged Nike flying down to crown a charioteer with laurels. Athens ca. 425 BC

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