A person who has a quick temper does foolish things, and a person with crafty schemes is hated.

The one who is slow to anger has great understanding, but the one who has a quick temper exalts folly.

A quick-tempered person stirs up dissension, but one who is slow to anger calms a quarrel.

Better to be slow to anger than to be a mighty warrior, and one who controls his temper is better than one who captures a city.

Through patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a soft tongue can break a bone.

For as the churning of milk produces butter and as punching the nose produces blood, so stirring up anger produces strife.