If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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- Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
- Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
- The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
- Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
- The greatest remedy for anger is delay.