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Pythagoras

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In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.
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As quoted in Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, "Pythagoras", Sect. 8, as translated in Dictionary of Quotations (1906) by Thomas Benfield Harbottle, p. 370

 
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